iOS Push Notification Certificate Setup

In order to send or receive push notifications using our SDK, you would need to create push notification certificates from Apple Developer Console & Upload in our Amity console.

Here are the steps to generate push notification certificate from Apple Developer Console.

Step 1:

Go to Apple Developer Console (i.e https://developer.apple.com) and click on Certificates.

Step 2:

Select Apple Push Notification Service SSL (Sandbox & Production)

Step 3:

Follow the rest of the steps of creating certificates as shown by apple & download the .cer file.

Step 4:

Double click on .cer file you downloaded in the last step in Finder. After few seconds, Keychain Access program should open.

Step 5:

Select Login → My Certificates, then right click on the Apple Push Services certificate that you just installed. It would show you with some options as shown below.

Step 6:

Select Export “Apple Push Services …” option and save the file using .p12 extension. If you add a password while exporting, you will need to enter the same password in Amity Console.

Step 7:

Open Amity Console. Select Settings → Push Notifications & Upload this .p12 file to Amity Console.

That’s it. Now the certificate is setup, Please follow the steps shown in Register & Unregister Push Notifications section to correctly send APNS token to receive push notification.