iOS push notification

victor-racovita · February 18, 2016, 9:48am

Hi,

I’m trying to use Messaging service to send push notifications to iOS devices.

I have uploaded the push notification certificate (no pass required), configured the device to register for push notification( I can see my device in the “Devices” tab) but, when I try to publish send a notification, the device won’t receive it.

During all the configuration and sending flow no error/warning raised.

Could the problem be that I didn’t set a password to the push notification cert?

vyacheslav-vdovichenko · February 18, 2016, 10:05am

Hi Victor,

Did you download a provisioning profile for your device? It must be profile for your application bundleId:
http://support.backendless.com/public/attachments/c259e3d43440be198d3f833a9cde1116.png</img>

victor-racovita · February 18, 2016, 10:11am

Hi Slava,

Yes, I did. Also I uploaded the cert to Mobile settings under the iOS push notification.

vyacheslav-vdovichenko · February 18, 2016, 10:43am

Can you try our sample - https://github.com/Backendless/iOS-Samples/tree/master/samples/objective-c/backendlessDemos/PushNotify - with your bundleId & appID + SecretKey of your backendless app where you set .p12 cert in Mobile Settings:

http://support.backendless.com/public/attachments/c4860bc486541584ee9a0dff9a454f4b.png</img>

This sample works fine with my settings - it sends and receives the pushes.

victor-racovita · February 18, 2016, 12:32pm

I have generated a new cert and tried it with parse push services, all went good, after I uploaded the cert to backendless and tried to send a notification with provided demo and still didn’t receive notifications.

Any idea what could the problem?

victor-racovita · February 18, 2016, 1:23pm

Do I need a development provisioning profile and register every device in order to be able to send push notifications? On Parse I could use the distribution provisioning profile.

vyacheslav-vdovichenko · February 18, 2016, 1:24pm

Try to set your provisioning profile instead ‘Automatic’:

http://support.backendless.com/public/attachments/6e0a58fe6296bc591a690090c20a3016.png</img>

victor-racovita · February 18, 2016, 1:38pm

What I meant is that for my app I only have distribution provisioning profile, I don’t have a development one, so I created a production certificate. I’ve done this because the testing of my app is taking place only on Test Flight, so I don’t see the reason why I should create a Development certificate.

vyacheslav-vdovichenko · February 18, 2016, 3:16pm

If you use universal provisioning profile, set ‘Code Signing Identity’ = ‘iOS distribution’