Certificate creation for Apple push notifications

Question

Hi,

I need to integrate apple push notifications. I am not clear about the certificate needed for the server. As I know this is a generated certificate form server end and does it needed to be signed by a valid certificate authority? If so how does APNS going to validate this?

For the apple sandbox cant we proceed with a test certificate?

Is there any chance to test this APNS process in the simulator?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to generate the certificate on the iOS Provisioning Portal, according to the instructions on the docs (also available on the portal). You don't need to worry about the details of the certificate; the Provisioning Portal takes care of all the details for you. You need to do this for each of you App IDs and you need to be the Agent of your organization to do this.