I am working on apple push notification service. Now I have implemented the delegates methods as suggested in apple APNS guide. But this also says that one has to send device token received from APNS to provider server.
I am really confused about this thing.
Because when I launched application it asked me if I want to register for remote notifications but then later it never showed anything like that. At that time I had no code to handle this device token. But now it does not show anything like that even if I have deleted and reinstalled the whole application.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My code is this
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
//registring for remote notifications
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:(UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert | UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge |UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound)];
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)app didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
NSLog(#"Device token is %#", deviceToken)
}
The message to register for notifications is displayed just one time, at the first installation. To change notifications settings, you can go in notifications settings.
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I am using Sinch with ManagedPush to receive notifications for VoIP via PushKit. In my app I have three possible states:
Online
Offline
"Not available for incoming calls, but I can make calls"
The user can change this state at any time during the App session.
Following documentation:
https://www.sinch.com/docs/voice/ios/#unregisterapushdevicetoken
I am using unregisterPushNotificationDeviceToken as well as stopListeningOnActiveConnection
This seems to work to get the person not to receive incoming calls and still having the client active to make calls. Where I am having issues is on setting the user back online. The active connection works, but I can't seem to be able to register again for the notifications, to receive the call when the app is in background.
Questions like Sinch SDK - How to logout user? don't solve how to put the user back online.
I have considered using the SinchService component https://github.com/sinch/SinchService-iOS but I can see from the code that the logout functionality terminates the client. And I am interested in not terminating the client, but stop receiving notifications and then receving them again on the same session.
What I have tried:
Not available for incomming calls button does:
[_client stopListeningOnActiveConnection];
[_client unregisterPushNotificationDeviceToken];
Online button does:
[_client startListeningOnActiveConnection];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];
The reason I am calling registerForRemoteNotifications is to force the didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken delegate method to be called so I can call the Managed Push to register again for notifications. I thought that might do the trick but it didn't.
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
[self.push application:application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:deviceToken];
}
Most likely this doesn't work because this goes through PushKit and the way to register is different.
As workaround that works for me is recreating the client when the user switches to online status back:
[_client terminateGracefully];
_client = nil;
[self initSinchClientWithUserId:[BCDataProvider loggedInUser].callerId];
Is there any way I can get back on being registered for VoIP notifications, after a unregisterPushNotificationDeviceToken without having to recreate the client?
Thanks!!
If I am not wrong, basically you need to achieve VOIP, by online / offline etc you need to manage user to allow for call or not.
You can use socket architecture, which keeps broandcast user is online / offline, so on that basis you can manage to allow for call or not.
If you are working with VOIP, then below method has to be in use.
-(void)pushRegistry:(PKPushRegistry *)registry didUpdatePushCredentials:(PKPushCredentials *)credentials forType:(NSString *)type
{
///tell the Sinch SDK about the push token so we can
///give that to users that want to call this user.
[_client registerPushNotificationData:credentials.token];
}
Below mentioned method will not be in use.
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
}
Using push notification, will always provide you new unique device token, so once you unregistered for offline, then again for online you would not be able to register with same device token.
Using push kit( Silent push notification ) you will always get same device token registering after unregistered.
I am using Quickblox to send push notification from server. I want to get push token and create subscription from PHP. In my project I can send different parameters from ios to PHP script. But I cannot find out how to get value for client_identification_sequence in ios.
What actually this "client_identification_sequence" means?
How to get it for ios?
Look at this guide how to work with iOS push notifications
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/setting-up-push-notifications-on-ios--cms-21925
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
NSLog(#"Did Register for Remote Notifications with Device Token (%#)", deviceToken);
}
deviceToken is the client_identification_sequence in general
I would like to add support for sending Apple Push Notifications to a iOS app. This is a news app, so every time some important news event has occurred, then I would like to broadcast a push notification to all users and devices where the app is installed.
According to the Apple Push Notification Service documentation, in Figure 3-3 the Client App must send the device token to the Provider.
In order to be able to send Push Notifications to all devices where my app is installed, do I have to create a webservice which receives and stores device tokens from the client apps when they register for notifications? In order to send a push notification, I need a token and the payload. I want to send a push notification to all users, typically many thousand users. So how can I best get access to the device tokens so that I can send the push notification to all users?
Yes. You will have to make a web service for sending the push notifications to any of the devices that are using your app. As far as the device tokens are concerned, you can get them through your code using this :
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)app {
// other setup tasks here....
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:(UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound)];
}
// Delegation methods
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)app didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)devToken {
const void *devTokenBytes = [devToken bytes];
self.registered = YES;
[self sendProviderDeviceToken:devTokenBytes]; // custom method
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)app didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:(NSError *)err {
NSLog(#"Error in registration. Error: %#", err);
}
You need to write this in your AppDelegate.m, this will fetch the device token needed to send the push notifications.
Also, you can store those tokens on some Database server for further usage in sending notifications. You can use these tokens the next time when you want to send some notifications to selected or all of the users.
I am trying to create a PushNotification app and I am working with PubNub. I have gone through all of the necessary steps to:
Include PubNub libraries on my workspace
Create the proper provisioning profile for the App
Ensured PushNotification was in the profile
Create the proper SSL certificate for the app
Add the certificate to the keychain access
Create the proper .pem file
Uploaded the file to PubNub
-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:( NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
// #2 Register client for push notifications
NSLog(#" Options set");
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes: (UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound | UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert)];
[PubNub setDelegate:self];
return YES;
}
After getting some initial compile errors, I was able run the app on my device. When I ran the app on my device, I did not receive the "...Would Like To Send Yo Push Notifications" message as I thought I should. I am able to use the PubNun console to send a message and I see the messages are received via the log, but I do not get any notification or banner. I placed an NSLog in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method and I see the display in the log.
After that, I deleted the app from the device, deleted the provisioning profile form the device, restated Xcode, and compile and an again with the same results. Not sure what to try next.
EDIT: The specific problem you're running into has to do with the fact that you are running the application through Xcode, and in a nutshell you can't test production push notifications this way, you'd have to use the sandbox push server and certs. If you want to test prod pushes you'll need to distribute the application signed with an Ad Hoc provisioning profile. I'm sure there are a million ways to do this, but actually my two favorites are using Testflight and Crashlytics' new Beta feature, that allows you to distribute ad hoc builds to devices basically using a single line of code, automatically once you archive a new build. I would recommend Crashlytics because it also automatically handles extremely useful analytics as well as crash reporting.
If you are referring to the initial push notifications permissions pop-up, that will only be displayed once or the lifetime of the application. The ONLY way I believe to get around this is to uninstall the up and leave it uninstalled for 3 days (I believe this is the limit).
I'm unfortunately not familiar with PubNub, but in your application are you registering for push notifications and receiving a device token?
Kevin,
If this is all what you try to do, to receive notifications using PubNub service, than it is not enough.
After you receive device push notification token, you need to pass it to PubNub client library, for example like this with default configuration:
- (BOOL) application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Initialise PubNub client.
// Warning, you should use pub/sub/secret keys for your account (at admin.pubnub.com) to
// which you uploaded your development push notification certificate (in .pem file).
[PubNub setupWithConfiguration:[PNConfiguration defaultConfiguration] andDelegate:self];
[PubNub connect];
UIRemoteNotificationType type = (UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert|UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge|UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound);
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:type];
return YES;
}
- (void) application:(UIApplication *)application
didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
[PubNub enablePushNotificationsOnChannel:[PNChannel channelWithName:#"my-test-channe-for-push-notifications"]
withDevicePushToken:deviceToken];
}
// Observe for some PubNub delegate methods related to push notification observation (or use completion block enabled version of API):
- (void)pubnubClient:(PubNub *)client didEnablePushNotificationsOnChannels:(NSArray *)channels {
NSLog(#"PubNub client enabled push notifications on channels: %#", channels);
}
- (void)pubnubClient:(PubNub *)client pushNotificationEnableDidFailWithError:(PNError *)error {
NSLog(#"PubNub client failed push notification enable because of error: %#", error);
}
If you see that push notification enabling has been successful for you, then use http://pubnub.com/console with pub/sub/secret keys from your account at http://admin.pubnub.com to send message into the channel (in our case "aps" payload should be sent to the channel with "my-test-channe-for-push-notifications" name).
I installed Parse sdk on my iphone app. This is for xcode 4.5.
I get the modal request to enable push notifications.
The subscription is successful. The token shows up on the parse web app.
Says 1 user subscribed.
But I dont get a notification from the web app.
I just cant understand what to do here.
All the provisioning madness should be correct.
Was done for development.
I am using the below code to listen for the notifications.
But never gets fired. What am i doing wrong here???
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application
didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo {
NSLog(#"received push %#", userInfo);
[PFPush handlePush:userInfo];
}
Check your app's push notification page in the Parse dashboard, which should be at https://www.parse.com/apps/(your app)/push_notifications. If the push notification doesn't appear there, then your notification didn't get sent, and the problem is on the web app's side.
Try sending the push notification while your app isn't running. If you get the notification, then it's something in your app. If you don't get the notification, then you must have set up the push notification incorrectly somewhere.
Also, Parse has a pretty detailed tutorial.