Setting Up Push Notifications on iOS

Apple originally introduced push notifications to enable applications to respond to events if the application isn't running in the foreground. However, the operating system and iOS devices have changed significantly during the past few years and applications don't need to rely solely on push notifications to perform tasks in the background. This doesn't mean that push notifications are no longer useful though.

Push notifications are great to notify an application about important events and to keep your application's users engaged. Also, don't forget that an application still isn't allowed to run in the background without restrictions. In other words, the original purpose of push notifications is still valid.

Even the most experienced iOS developers scratch their heads from time to time when they have to deal with application provisioning. Unfortunately, push notifications add to this complexity. With this tutorial, Bart Jacobs hope to show you that setting up push notifications shouldn't be a nightmare. Follow along and he promises that you'll be sending push notifications in no time.