Step A: Enable Apple Messaging for Mapp Cloud

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Last updated: May 31, 2023 by Stefan Stevanovic
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Goal

Set up an iOS app so that you can send push notifications and your mobile users can receive them in their app.

Background Information

The owner of an iOS app must enable notification feature in the Apple Developer Member Center. Mobile app messages must be configured and enabled for each app separately.

During the certificate creation process, the provisioning profile might become invalid. During that time, push notifications are not be sent. While enablement of the provisioning profile can be done with a click of a button, there may still be some “down time involved”. As such please agree with the marketer on a timeframe to create the new certificate. 

Procedure
1.Log in to your account in the Apple Developer Member Center.
Apple Developer Member Center: Login page.
2.Locate your explicit App ID (also known as a Bundle Identifier).
iOS documentation, About Bundle IDs.
If you have not yet registered an explicit App ID, register it now.
iOS documentation, Registering App IDs.


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An explicit App ID is available for your app. Make sure that you select the Explicit App ID. The explicit ID uniquely identifies the application. The Bundle ID that you define must match the Bundle Identifier for your app in Xcode. In the App Services section, make sure to Push Notifications is enabled (option is ticked).



3.Enable push notifications for your app.
iOS documentation, Enabling Push Notifications .


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Mobile app messaging is enabled for your app (but not implemented in your app code).

4.Create an Apple Push Notification service SSL Certificate.
Create a Universal Push Notification Client SSL Certificate

In order to create SSL certificate you will need a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).To produce CSR please follow the steps below:

  1. Open Keychain Access on your Mac (located in Applications/Utilities).
  2. Open Preferences and click Certificates.
  3. Choose Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority.
  4. Enter your user email address and common name. Use the same address and name as you used to register in the iOS Developer Program. No CA Email Address is required.
  5. Select the options “Saved to disk” (do NOT choose Let me specify key per information) click Continue.
  6. Specify a filename and click Save.
  7. You have now created the certificate request(CSR).

Keep the CSR and use it during the creation of SSL certificate process

5.Export a p12 certificate.

Export the p12 certificate and make sure you assign a password to it. This kind of certificate is valid one year after that new one need to be created. 

Token based authentication
That is p8 certificate which has no expiration date like p12 and this one is more frequently used.

6.

Adding the certification to your Mapp Engage applications

The generated p12 certificate needs to be provided to the Mapp Project Manager so that it can be added to the application and used to send notifications.

Include the following information with the certificate:

  • Certificate password
  • Bundle ID from which the certificate was created
  • Validate if the certificate is used for the "Production" or "Development" app
7.Manage your provisioning profile in Xcode.
The process to create a p12 certificate might cause invalidation of the provisioning profile. As such, please verify that the provisioning profile is still valid.
iOS documentation, Maintaining Identifiers, Devices, and Profiles