Question

I’m new to Objective-C and iOS development, but I was wondering if there was a way to request an Apple Push Notification Device Token from the View Controller and store the token in a string to use later in a Query String sent to my web application.

I’ve been searching, but haven’t been able to find a solution to this. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

You should be able to call registerForRemoteNotificationTypes: anywhere in your code.

But you’ll have to implement application:didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken: in your app delegate.

You can register for up to 3 different types of notification. Just remove and add as required.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] 
   registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:
   (UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert |      //Alerts are pop up boxes or on ios5, banners
     UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge |     //Badges are the little red number on the icon
     UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound)];    //Sounds are... well, sounds. These can be played when presenting a remote notification