As am an iOS developer. I know to implement the APN in programmatically in our project. But, am assumption is we are receiving the APN message from APN server. I don’t know how we are hosting the the APN message? How to create real APN Server for us? I have searched lot from Google,
http://blog.serverdensity.com/2009/07/10/how-to-build-an-apple-push-notification-provider-server-tutorial/
http://www.anima-entertainment.de/iphone-programming-how-to-make-an-apple-push-notification-service-using-php
http://samvermette.com/145
These are i have visited to know to create APN Server. But, i can’t understand to create actual server for APN. Can anyone please help me to create actual APN Server and host message in our server. And also how we can test the APN from real APN server? Is it Possible? Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Apple provides a production and test server (sandbox) that do the communication with the phones. Your job is to get your app user’s device ids (with their permission), and then contact apple to send them messages. That job is called the “provider”, and you can either build it, or now – thanks to a couple new startups – rent it.
I haven’t tried any of the services, but if you’re finding the do-it-yourself approach too complex, and just want to see some messages get to your test app, it seems a reasonable thing to look at. I think most have a free tier to try it out. Here’s the first link I found using google.