Using Appcelerator Cloud Serives Push Notification Part II

Welcome back...You must be ready with the things which I mentioned in my previous post, Let us recheck them

• you must created a iOS development certificate.
• Apple Id with push notification enabled. (must be same as your appId)
• Apple Push Notification certificate.

For client side code please refer to my previous post

Steps to generate of p12 file required to send push notification from acs server

1. Double click and install the Apple Push Notification certificate which you generated through Apple developer portal, it will add it to the keychain.
2. Open Keychain access (you can do this by hitting spacebar while holding command it will open search area on the screen and here you have to type keychain…. , while typing this it will show you example of keychain access just hit enter).
3. In Keychain access select certificates from the left menu and in the main area right click your recently added certificate and export it as p12 file(save this in a safe place ….. bcoz we need this).

Let'z do Server Side Thingz

1. Login at Appcelerator Platform Portal
2. Select acs apps and find your app name then click on manage acs as shown in the figures below:
   
3. make sure development is selected and then move in the settings tab and add your p12 file here, and enter its password you entered while exporting this to p12

Let'z Send a Notification

1. Add your acs app key in your mobile app, you can find this key in the location as shown in figure below
2. Open your app, It will register your current device with acs push notification
3. you must be sure development tab is selected
4. Select Push Notifications tab
5. enter some text in Alert Text field and press the send push notification button.

This will popup a push notification on your mobile device, Thats all folks.

THANKS