Push Notifications are not delivering to apps deployed via Xcode, but work perfectly when build is deployed via TestFlight? What could this problem be?
The iPhone Simulator is unable to receive push notifications or successfully register for them.
But, you can create a local APNS file and test PN on the simulator. Check this;
https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-send-push-notifications-to-the-ios-simulator-2988092ba931
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When I test the app using a TestFlight version built by the CI machine, the device receives push notifications.
But when I rebuild the app under Xcode locally with the debugger connected, the device doesn't receive any push notifications.
To validate things further I again tested locally with a push notifications tester, and the device indeed received a push notification.
So the code isn't omitted due to it being a #DEBUG build as the grant and registrations pass.
What is my local build possibly missing?
When you build your app in debug locally your app will generate a unique device token that doesn't receive production push notifications. When you build your app with a distribution provisioning profile it generates a different device token that does work on production.
Apple will reject a development device token unless you are specifically requesting a push notification using your APNS Sandbox certificate.
So if you haven't already you'll have to go through the certificate creation process all over again but this time for a sandbox certificate and use that one instead.
The solution ended up being that our server with the Houston gem needed to configure its APNS support to be in development mode, and not in production mode. đź‘Ť
We have created project in Mobile Hub and manage AWS Pinpoint to send push notification in iOS devices and setup AWS Pinpoint console for push notification. We have uploaded development certificate .p12 and download the demo app from our application(project) which is created using 'AWS Mobile Hub' web service(Screen shot attached). We are getting notification while installing it from adhoc IPA. But, We are unable to get notification when we are installing directly from Xcode into my device.
So, how to get notification when app install/run directly from Xcode ?
Thanks
Previously, the Pinpoint console didn't support sending push notifications via the APNs Sandbox development environment.
Note: This feature was supported earlier only by invoking the API (not through the console). You can make a call to the API to do the following:
To register the APNs Sandbox Channel.
Register a device as an APNs Sandbox endpoint.
Send messages/campaign pushes to it.
As of yesterday (10/03/2017) Pinpoint fully supports APNs Sandbox environment through the console as well. In order to register a device as an APNs Sandbox endpoint, use the latest version of the AWS iOS SDK (v2.6.2 or above) and enable the debug flag. This corresponds to the Sandbox development environment.
You can enable the debug flag by using the following code snippet
AWSPinpointConfiguration *config = [AWSPinpointConfiguration defaultPinpointConfigurationWithLaunchOptions:launchOptions];
[config setDebug:YES];
AWSPinpoint *_pinpoint = [AWSPinpoint pinpointWithConfiguration:config];
I have built a application in Xcode 7 with Push Notification using test- flight in development. I also have a created a script to push notification to the devices using the token of the devices that I stored in a database.
I simple flag the devices in the database and my scripts read the tables and send a notification to the device(s). Works!
All was well until xcode8.
Now The only way the scripts work is if I "attach" the devices to the mac and build and install the app using the attached cable. I then detached the devices and the scripts works.
If I "archive" the app to iTunes and then using test flight as an external user, i then install the app from test flight, I never get a notification when I run the scripts.
So basically, If I attached the device locally and build, install using a cable it works great. but if uploaded to iTunes and using test flight it does not.
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The first step in sending a remote notification is to establish a connection with the appropriate APNs server link:
•Development server: api.development.push.apple.com:443
•Production server: api.push.apple.com:443
When you are installing app in your device through Xcode, I think its build using development provision profile if you have selected Automatic in codesign settings. and when you are archiving and uploading on testflight its build using Distribution profile.
You need to customize your script to send notification for development and distribution(Production) app.
When you are installing app in your device through Xcode, I think its build using development provision profile.
if you are using gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com, port 2195, change it with production url.
•Sandbox: gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com, port 2195. (for development)
•Production: gateway.push.apple.com, port 2195. (for production)
you also need different APNS certificate (.p12 or .pem- whatever you are using in your script) for Development and production build.
After changing this, you will start getting notification for builds installed through test flight too.
When i test Push Notification with apn_development_cer, it works with the loaded app on the iPhone device from Xcode.
But, when i am downloading the same application from App Store or with the Ad Hoc Distribution on the same iPhone device from Xcode, it just stops sending Push Notification with apn_production_cer.
Thanks in advance!
Vivek Dandage
Are you using sandbox (development) environment which is available through gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com, port 2195 ? For app store build, you will need production environment which is available through gateway.push.apple.com, port 2195;
I am developing push notifications for an app of mine, I wrote the provider in PHP and it works fine. I was previously testing the push notifications with my dev builds and the sandbox server from Apple and everything worked fine, now I am trying to get it to work with an AdHoc build but I never receive any messages on the phone. Here is what I did:
Enable production push notifications for the App, create the certificate, download it, create the PEM following the instructions here and upload it to my server. Configured my PHP Script to use gateway.push.apple.com and port 2195 for the connection and test it, the connection to the server works as expected.
The Layout of the payload is the same as with the dev and writing to the stream works
After activating Production APN I recreated my AdHoc provisioning profile and verified after the build that in the entitlements aps-environment is set to "production" (which it is)
Installed the App through AdHoc on a device which has not run the app before, I get asked whether to allow PNs, click yes and my server receives the token just as it should.
Tried to send a message (which should get send to 3 devices) through the production environment. There is no error when connecting to Apple or sending the data but I do not receive a push notification on any of the devices.
I am really out of ideas what could be wrong, does anybody have an idea? Thanks a lot!
I finally figured this out, the issue is that if you open a connection to the APNS and send over more than one push notification AND one of the tokens you submit is not a token valid for this certificate (eg. you send over a token that belongs to a dev instance whilst being connected with the production certificate) the APNS cancels the delivery of all the PNs that you sent in this batch. At least that is what I experienced so far, so make sure you always keep your dev and production tokens nicely separated :)
Push certificates for production and development are different. And to make more difficult device tokens for production and sandbox are different for the same device. Cross check if these are correct and Im sure you must have faltered in this. To get device token in Production mode, write an alertview in AppDelegate didreceivenotifications event.
Once you get this token, you will know that it is different from dev token that we are generating which is why you were not able to send notification on PROD
I am struggling with the same issue. I believe the problem is that with adhoc builds, apple will only send notifications to them from the production apns server, try that.
For distribution and release build always use production certificate.