iOS Tutorial - Push Notifications (APNs)
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as a step-by-step walkthrough for sending iOS push notifications with a self-hosted PHP script, and many askers cite it as the tutorial they followed before hitting problems.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2012 to 2015.
What it is
A 2012 screencast tutorial that walks through setting up Apple Push Notifications (APNs) for an iOS app, including certificates, device token handling in Xcode, and a PHP script on a server that sends pushes to Apple's gateway. It is presented by the channel Tony's Programming Stuff.
What people said
Recommends Sasha Grievus · 2013-02 · Stack Overflow · on “How can i send a push notification?”
I found a simple and clear video about this here: [this video] . It is simple and clear, and after that i followed [LINK] and [LINK] . So i managed to send push notification. Needs some work but it's not do difficult as i thought.
Recommends Jacob Topping · 2014-07 · Stack Overflow · on “What are the current options of Pushing notifications to iOS?”
The native iOS SDK is Xcode (Objective-C). Native iOS code can also be generated via PhoneGap (Cordova -HTML,CSS, Javascript), Titanium (HTML,CSS, Javascript), or Xamarin (C#). Without Push Providers: Using the same principles as shown in the tutorial below, you can push high volume from your server to the Apple Push Notification Servers. Here is a tutorial on how to send push notifications on iOS, without using a 3rd party push service: [this video] Alternatively Push Providers: For options on using a Push Service Provider for push have a look at: Urban Airship, Parse, Azure Services, PushBots . Each has loads of info on setting up an using iOS push notifications. Automating your pushes: If you
Cites stepik21 · 2012-12 · Stack Overflow · on “How to get device tokens”
I have an app for iOS and I want to integrate there push notifications. I have seen a tutorial on youtube [this video] and everything is OK, but recently I'm using a development certificate (for testing - not for AppStore use) and I have PHP script on my server. In this file is stored the deviceToken which have my iPhone and it is written in php variable $deviceToken. But now, when I want to use this in AppStore, how can I get the device tokens from everybody who had downloaded my app and get it into the PHP script? This is my PHP file: if($_POST['message']){ $deviceToken = '(my device token)'; $message = stripslashes($_POST['message']); $payload = '{ "aps" : { "alert" : "'.$message.'", "badge" :
Cites kumar · 2014-02 · Stack Overflow · on “push notification is not working on device”
Hi I’m trying to create push notification in my app I’m getting device token and php script I have written by see some tutorials but now I’m not getting the push notification in my device not don’t where I have done wrong here please help me out.. this is my php script ... <?php if($_POST['message']){ $deviceToken ='here i have given my device token '; $message = stripcslashes($_POST['message']); $payload = '{ "aps" : { "alert" :"'.$message.'", "badge" : 1, "sound" : "bingbong.aiff" } }'; $ctx = stream_context_create(); stream_context_set_option($ctx,'ssl', 'local_cert','ck.pem'); stream_context_set_option($ctx,'ssl','passphrase', 'bali'); $fp = stream_socket_client('ssl://gateway.sandbox.pu
Cites user1895268 · 2014-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Device Token not shown when want to provide PushNotifications”
i followed this Tutorial: [this video] to provide PushNotifications in my App. BTW: My App is a WebApp based on Cordova, (there's also an AdService called Flurry included). Everything worked fine, i built the certificates and profile, added this to Xcode, i started my App and it asked me to allow PushNotifications. i said YES but it did not show the DeviceToken in the console. so what did i wrong? it even does not call the didFinishedLaunchingWithOptions: method Here is my code in the AppDelegate.m - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication*)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary*)launchOptions { CGRect screenBounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]; #if __has_feature(objc_arc) self.windo
Cites user3916570 · 2015-12 · Stack Overflow · on “iOS APN Php Cannot Connect”
I followed this youtube tutorial on how to send push notifications: [this video] When I run the php file on my webserver however it times out giving me this error. I have looked at the web and nothing I could find seems to be the problem, can someone suggest where I have gone wrong.. [14-Dec-2015 06:13:10 America/New_York] PHP Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195 (Connection timed out) in /home2/sptechno/public_html/Wink/sendPush.php on line 18