How to Generate a Push Certificate and Export It to a PEM File
Blog post from Luciq
Push notifications are crucial for enhancing user engagement in mobile apps, and implementing them in a nonintrusive manner can significantly boost an app's success. This tutorial guides users through the process of generating the necessary certificate to send push notifications via an iOS app, beginning with accessing the Apple Developer page and navigating to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles. It provides detailed steps on creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) using Keychain Access on a Mac, generating and downloading a certificate, and exporting a .p12 file containing the certificate and private key. The final steps involve using the terminal to generate a .PEM file, which enables the sending of push notifications, while emphasizing the importance of removing the pushcert.p12 file from the desktop to prevent accidental uploads.