How to use Apple's new .p8 certificate for APNs in firebase console

Question

With the recent up gradation of the Apple developer accounts, I am facing a difficulty that while trying to create the push notification certificates, it is providing me wit

Answer 1

So, After taking a while I figured out that the old push certificate generating service also exists.

You get two options:

• Apple Push Notification Authentication Key (Sandbox & Production)
• Apple Push Notification service SSL (Sandbox & Production)

Those who want to achieve the old style .p12 certificate can get it from second option. I have not used the first option yet as most of the third-party push notification service providers still need the .p12 format certificate.

Answer 2

Firebase console is now accepting .p8 file, in fact, it's recommending to upload .p8 file.

Answer 3

I was able to do this by selecting "All" located under the "Keys" header from the left column

Then I clicked the plus button in the top right corner to add a new key

Enter a name for your key and check "APNs"

Then scroll down and select Continue. You will then be brought to a screen presenting you with the option to download your .p8 now or later. In my case, I was presented with a warning that it could only be downloaded once so keep the file safe.

Answer 4

Apple have recently made new changes in APNs and now apple insist us to use "Token Based Authentication" instead of the traditional ways which we are using for push notification.

So does not need to worry about their expiration and this p8 certificates are for both development and production so again no need to generate 2 separate certificate for each mode.

To generate p8 just go to your developer account and select this option "Apple Push Notification Authentication Key (Sandbox & Production)"

Then will generate directly p8 file.

I hope this will solve your issue.

Read this new APNs changes from apple: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/724/

Also you can read this: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/APNsProviderAPI.html

Answer 5

You can create the .p8 file for it in https://developer.apple.com/account/

Then go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles > Keys > add

Select Apple Push Notification service (APNs), put a Key Name (whatever).

Then click on "continue", after "register" and you get it and you can download it.

Answer 6

When you upload your p8 file in Firebase, in the box that reads App ID Prefix(required) , you should enter your team ID. You can get it from https://developer.apple.com/account/#/membership and copy/paste the Team ID as shown below.