Question

I have a quick question. I have been testing Development Push Notification Certificate for my iPhone App and its been working fine. I just want to know that is it possible to test Production Certificate before submitting my application to AppStore? I did try but message is not coming along when I use production certificate. Does Apple required application to be in AppStore when I use production certificate?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you create an Ad-Hoc Profile, you’ll find that it uses the production certificate, that’s possibly the easiest way of testing it out.

UPDATE:

See the Apple documentation here

There are a number of steps to this but in essence;

1) The team leader needs to create a new DISTRIBUTION provisioning profile. This is done by selecting “Ad Hoc” rather than “App Store” when creating a new profile. Note by the way that you can’t use a wildcard app id for this, you need to have a specific app id for the application although you may well have this already.

2) Setup your system so that build for archive uses a newly created Ad Hoc configuration, the steps required for setting this up are well documented online, here is one example.

3) Now when you distribute the .ipa to devices linked to your Ad Hoc provisioning profile, you will find that the push notification system is using the production servers.

As an aside, I find that testflightapp is really useful for managing the distribution of Ad Hoc builds and although I’ve only discovered it recently, it’s saving me hours at the moment as I’m in the middle of running a beta test programme.