How to create the certificates and provisioning profile correctly for use of Push Notification?

Question

I need help creating a certificate for provisioning profile correctly to Push Notification. Because I followed several different tutorials, and in all of them I did not succeed. Only in a moment I used the provisioning profile Team that I was able to receive the notifications.

I have experience creating certificates for iOS as I already have 2 apps published that use push notification. But somehow I don’t know what’s going on.

Coincidence or not, I’m not getting it after the recent updates that accompanied the launch of iOS 8.

Answer 1

The launch of iOS8 brought some changes to the way devices receive notifications. I do not know if the problem you are referring to is about that aspect or even about the certificate created. So I will try to answer you both.

At first, with iOS 8, the way you implement and process notifications is different:

if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 8.0)
        {
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:[UIUserNotificationSettings
                                                                                 settingsForTypes:(UIUserNotificationTypeSound | UIUserNotificationTypeAlert | UIUserNotificationTypeBadge)
                                                                                 categories:nil]];
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];
        }
        else
        {
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:
             (UIUserNotificationTypeBadge | UIUserNotificationTypeSound | UIUserNotificationTypeAlert)];
        }

About the certificates themselves, when you want to create an application with Pushnotifications you have to create a different Appid.

1. The Bundle Identifier can’t be a wildMask(that is, use * to allow multiple applications with different names).
2. When creating this Appid you have to ask for pushNotification authorization (for both development and distribution).

This process requires you to create a certificate. Follow the explanation given on the page and the departure should not have major problems.