将通知推送给不同开发人员的两个应用程序

Question

Company A is developing an app which it releases to it users and can send push notifications to them

Company A has also has an open API because its service is so amazing and other companies want to develop there own apps to talk to its data.

So company B comes along as builds its own app thats uses company A's API

Is it possible that when company B talks to company A's API, part of the handshake is company A storing the push notification identifier of company's B app.

So that in the future company A can send a push notification to users who use its own app offering but also users who have chosen to use company's B app to access company A's data.

Can you send a push to another developers app if you know its push identifier?

Thanks

Answer 1

To be a push notification provider for iOS you will need:

1. Establish secured connection with APNS (Apple push notification service) ,this can be done by two ways:

   • Certificate based - you will need the Private key of the app's push certificate which issued on the developer portal.
   • Token based - you will need a Private key from the developer to generate JWT (JSON web token) to connect to APNS.

2. Know where to send the push to, this is done by a device token (which contains the specific device and app) which the app needs to send to the provider.

So if you want that Company A will be able to send push to Company A and Company B it will need:

• Company A app to send device token to Company A server .
• Company A private key and push certificate to be stored on Company A server .
• Company B app to send device token to Company A server .
• Company B private key and push certificate to be stored on Company A server .

Hope it helps.