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jeffery_the_wind
jeffery_the_wind

Reputation: 18228

Can I send Push Notifications to Other Devices with APNS Dev iOS certificate?

I have a Development APNs iOS Certificate for my new app, and from my server I am successfully sending push notifications and receiving them on own iPhone, using the device token. I have a partner in this app development, and I create an .ipa file of the app and give it to him for testing. This is called ad-hoc development. It has worked for us thus far.

From my server it looks like I am successfully sending out the push notification to his device as well as mine, using HIS device token of course (but using the same Dev APNs Cert), but he never receives the notifications. I still continue to receive my notifications. I also have registered his device in my dev center. He does not have a developer account.

So after reading up a little I am thinking that maybe with this APNs Dev certificate it is impossible to send notifications to third party devices, like my partner's device in this case. I was thinking perhaps I need to create a DISTRIBUTION certificate. Is this true? Or should the notifications work for many devices just using the APNs Dev certificate?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 687

Answers (1)

Scrungepipes
Scrungepipes

Reputation: 37590

Pushes go out over two environments - development and production and they are not interchangeable - i.e. if you send out a push to the Apple development server intended for a release build app it won't work and vice versa. Apps installed and run via Xcode are debug builds and you need to send the push via the dev server, an app built for distribution is a prod build and thus the pushes need to go to the prod server.

As you are probably aware the url for the two servers is different.

Needless to say the server needs to be signed with both the prod and dev push certificates for the server to be able to send pushes on both environment.

BTW the two environments do not behave the same in terms of delivery speed etc. But this is only really noticeable for silent pushes, where bizarrely the dev environment is better than the prod one.

Upvotes: 1

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