Simple APNS

Laravel package for sending notifications to ios devices via Apple Push Notification Service

Installation

composer require bluecloud/simple-apns

Publish Config

Next copy the apns.php configuration to your project. Run the following command to publish the vendor config

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Vendor\Providers\PackageServiceProvider"

Set Environment Variables

Add the following lines to your .env file and set the necessary values. If your key file has password set the APNS_KEY_SECRET to the password

APNS_KEY_ID=SAMPLE_KEY_ID
APNS_TEAM_ID=SAMPLE_TEAM_ID
APNS_APP_BUNDLE_ID=com.example.app
APNS_KEY_SECRET=

Add Key File

Copy your .p8 key file downloaded from apple developer account to the storage/app. Rename it to apns.p8 as indicated below

/storage/app/apns.p8

Usage

Token is a unique user device token generated by the iOS device. This should be captured from device and stored in the database through an API call for instance

$token = "";

$notifier = new APNSNotifier();

$message = new APNSMessage($token);
$message->setTitle("New Message");
$message->setMessage("This is a sample message");
$message->setContent(true);

$notifier->send($message);