Push notification guide?

Question

i need a rundown on how to fully utilise the push notification system. Iv read the push notification guide on the apple website but still unclear of some things.

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Answer 1

For anything other than development and testing, you'll generally want to run the provider on a server infrastructure that's not hosted on a home Windows machine.

You can either use a commercial provider like iLime or Urban Airship, but there's also a few tutorials and open source solutions out there:

• EasyAPNS (Push notifications using PHP & MySQL)
• How to build an Apple Push Notification provider server (tutorial)
• PHP Apple Push Notification Server
• Programming Apple Push Notification Services (contains details on certificate configuration)

There's also a local test app for Mac OS called PushMeBaby that you can use for development purposes.