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kennedy otis
3,570 PointsIOS Push Notifications
Hello guys I would like to ask for help concerning apple push notifications. Am making an app which fetches remote contents (php backend). I would like my clients to be receiving notifications in case of new content added to my remote database. I have a module which lists news and I would like when I add new news in the backend, then all people who have downloaded my app should receive a notification about the new content available.
Am still newbie to ios but with your direction / help I believe I can hack around this. I will really appreciate any help/resources . Thanks in advance :)
8 Answers
Patrick Donahue
9,523 PointsRay Wenderlich has a tutorial on it. Maybe that will help.
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsThanks. I have followed those step but I can not seem to get the certificate work. As per the tutorial, he creates the app id where he ends up creating APNs SSL certificate. Everything is fine but when I get to the part where I am have to create a provisioning profile, after selecting ios dev option, I get this screen asking for a certificate, which i expected to see the certificate created earlier to be available so that i can link it to the provision profile. For my case I do not see any certificates listed but instead I get an option to create new one. So this confuses me a little bit.. Is it that there are two certificates needed or what.. Confused.
http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1
Patrick Donahue
9,523 PointsParse seems to have a better tutorial for certificates. I always have trouble getting new profiles.
I figure the answer is yes, but do you have a paid developer account?
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsYes I have paid account. Infact I have an already in AppStore.. Just need to introduce push to ma app.. But to test local first.
Patrick Donahue
9,523 Points[Stack Overflow]9http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7361298/how-to-test-push-notification-is-working-in-my-application) This can help you once you get your certificate.
Sorry I cannot help more on fixing your certificate or more insight on push notifications.
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsThanks for at least trying.. I just don't get it why I don't see the certificate I created when it comes to creating a provisioning profile. I have followed all the steps both from ray and Parse but I don't seem to get the provisioning profile. I expect to see the certificate listed below as I created it when creating the app ID. Is there something am missing or should know about push notification certificates ?
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsFinally I got it working.. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :)
Patrick Donahue
9,523 PointsNo problem! What was the answer?
kennedy otis
3,570 PointsIt was about the ssl certificate and the normal certificate. I was not having the normal certificate and thats why when I tried creating provisioning profile, there was not cert to link it to. In my mind I was expecting the ssl which I created when creating app ID to be the one being linked to the profile. I was wrong about that. Now its clear and when you pointed out that I needed to different certificate I saw my mistake. Thanks again.