Hi, I have read through some of the discussion on integrating Urban Airship push notifications to iOS apps, but have not seen a procedure for it. If anybody has done this successfully, and would like to share the exact steps, I would love to see them. Thanks! mark

Hi Mark, If no one else chimes in, these are probably the best threads you'll get from search results: http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/?&status=&searchInput=push

Hi Parker, Yeah, I ran across that link when doing a search already, and while there is a bit of good info there, I'm really hoping that somebody has put together a step-by-step guide. Otherwise, I guess I'll have to dive in, figure it out, and write one myself! Mark

Hi Mark, I've been able to get both the push notifications and the in app purchases functioning. I started writing up notes on that. Let me see if I can find them and I'll try to post something tonight. You can email me at [email protected] also. Jeff

That would be awesome...thanks Jeff! I'm primarily interested in push notifications at the moment, so if you had those handy, it would be great!

I'd be interested to see those notes as well ^_^

Hey Jeff, will these push features work in Android 1.5? If so, do you mind if I get this info as well? It certainly seems like a move in the right direction. Tom

thanks MGoBlue!

Okay. I've put together instructions for the basic push notifications in a text file you can download here: http://www.jc-evans.com/uploads/Urban_Airship_Instructions.txt The reason for the text file is that I included code that you can just copy and paste into your project. There are quote marks in the code, and as we know, quote marks don't work well in the forum. There are also links to a few screenshots. I'll see if I can add this to the wiki as well. If you want to use the Rich Push notifications and the persistent inbox, the setup is basically the same, but you need to create a custom screen to handle the inbox activity. You can use the UI in the demo for that. When I have some more time I'll write up a tutorial on that. Feel free to post follow up questions here or drop me a note at [email protected]. Good luck. Jeff

Also, this is only for iOS. I haven't tried integrating with Android yet.

Thanks, @MGoBlue! That is an extremely well written tutorial! I'll give implementation a shot tomorrow (hopefully), and let you know how it went. Thanks for the time you spent putting that together! Mark

@MGoBlue Thanks for that information.

Awesome tutorial. Thanks so much!

Very robust tutorial Jeff... Good/Nice work! Hopefully I'll get to use it one day when developing apps in iOS. THANKS!

Hi Jeff. Your instructions are spot on! I managed to implement the push notification in one of my soon to release app(iOS). Now I need to update my first app so I can bring news to my users. Thanks a lot! Vali

Glad this has helped.

So, the one gotcha I think I've noticed for this, and perhaps I'm mistaken, but it's that you have to use a unique App ID for each app that you want to enable Push on (at least according to the Apple Dev Center). I am using a wildcard App ID for all my apps, and now that seems to be coming back to haunt me. Do I understand this correctly? And, if so, does changing to a unique App ID for an existing, published all cause any issues aside from a recompile and an update in the store?

Interesting. I've been doing unique app ID's all along, so I didn't even think about wildcards. According to Apple: 'Wild-card App IDs cannot be used with the Apple Push Notification service or for In App Purchase.' I'm not sure about changing the app ID. It's probably fine as long as the bundle ID is the same.

Thanks so much MGOBLUE ^_^

MGoBlue, Thanx so much. You have a dinner paid in Rome.. :-)

@MGoBlue would there also be an Android version on the WIKI?

Thanks a lot MGoBlue for this great tutorial. I installed everything per the instructions, but when I send a message, I get an error that the token is invalid. Do you know how can I fix this? Apple Push service rejected device token XXXXXXXX.... Regards Hector

@Intrege - I'm working on an android app now that I need to integrate push into, so hopefully I'll be able to post instructions soon. Hector - Did you enable push notifications for your app in iTunes connect? You do then in the app ID screen. Also, you need to upload a .p12 file to Urban Airtouch. This is all I can think of at the moment.

Hector - Check out this link in the debug section: http://urbanairship.com/docs/push_index.html#debug-mode

Thanks You.

Thanks very much MGoBlue for the link. It seems that I need to register the token so that UrbanAirShp can activate it. The process to activate the token is here: http://urbanairship.com/docs/push.html#token-registration The thing that I don't understand is how and where to put this: Here’s an example using curl, a command line URL fetching tool: ==================================================================== curl -X PUT -u <application key>:<application secret> \ -H Content-Type: application/json \ --data '{alias: myalias}' \ https://go.urbanairship.com/api/device_tokens/<token>/ =========================================================== I know where to get my keys and token, but the thing that is not clear to me, is where to put the command above, if in the browser or from the terminal in my Mac or maybe the terminal from my Server (I have shared hosting with HostGator). Thanks again for the awesome tutorial and your help Regards Hector

@MGoBlue Thank you SO much! Walked through your instructions and it seems to be working great! Huge help!

Maybe I spoke too soon! It is working fine but when I build and run the following line is highlighted in UAPushSettingsTokenViewController.m - @synthesize copyButton; and it says Property's synthesized getter follows Cocoa naming convention for returning 'owned' objects Any ideas why this is and what I should do?! Any help would due greatly appreciated. Thanks

Thanks. This is a very well written tutorial. I'm glad someone was willing to give out this valuable information to all of us. Thanks

@goBlue, Any luck getting a document of in app purchases via urban airship? Thanks Anthony

@MGoBlue thanks for the share

I'm reeling from the cost of Urban Airship. Do they charge that amount per app? I was reading their pricing information, etc, but couldn't figure it out. I would only want to look at using them if I could use it in a few apps that I am creating. I have a few ideas for informational apps. Download the app and get one article - pay for the release of other articles. Thanks to anyone that can answer.