Chapter 17. Apple Push Notification Services
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:
Understand how to use the Apple Push Notification service
How to generate a certificate request
How to generate a development certificate
How to create an App ID
How to configure App ID for push notification
How to create a provisioning profile
How to provision a device
How to deploy an iPad application onto a device
How to use a push notification provider application
One of the key limitations of the iPad is its constraint on running applications in the background, which means that applications requiring a constant state of connectivity (such as social networking applications) will not be able to receive timely updates when the user switches to another application.
To overcome this limitation, Apple released the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). APNs allows your device to be constantly connected to Apple's push notification server. When you want to send a push notification to an application installed on the users' devices, you (the provider) can contact the APNs so that it can deliver a push message to the particular application installed on the intended device.
When your iPad application uses the Apple Push Notification service, the device remains connected to the APNs server using an open TCP/IP connection. To send notifications to your application running on iPad devices, you need to write a provider application that communicates with that server. Your provider application will send messages to the APNs ...
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