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APNs

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In mobile app development, APNs means: Apple Push Notification service: Apple's system that delivers push notifications from a server to iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices.

In Turkish: Apple Push Notification service, APNs

How it is used

Every push notification to an Apple device goes through APNs, even when a service such as FCM sits in between. Servers connect with an authentication key (.p8 file) or a certificate, and there are separate sandbox and production environments.

Example sentences

  1. Notifications work in debug builds but not in TestFlight; are we using the production APNs environment?

  2. Upload the APNs key to Firebase, or iOS users won't get any notifications.

Common collocations

  • APNs key
  • APNs certificate
  • APNs environment
  • send via APNs
  • push notificationA short message sent from a server to a user's device that appears on the screen even when the app is not open, for example about a new message or a delivery.
  • FCMFirebase Cloud Messaging: Google's free service for sending push notifications and data messages to Android, iOS and web apps.
  • device tokenA unique string that identifies one installation of an app on one device; the server needs it to send push notifications to that device.
  • iOSApple's operating system for the iPhone. Apps for it are built with Apple's own tools, mainly Xcode and the Swift programming language.

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