iOS Push Notifications sent but not received - objective-c

Question

I am completely new to the Objective-C language. All I need to implement is the Push Notifications bit on my app for now. I have written the Client side on XCode 6 and the server side in Java using the javapns library. Now, while the server manages to send the notification (I get the confirmation message), I receive nothing on my device, be it the app is active or running in background.
Can somebody please direct me in the right direction? Thank you!
#import "AppDelegate.h"
#interface AppDelegate ()
#end
#implementation AppDelegate
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
UIUserNotificationSettings *settings = [UIUserNotificationSettings settingsForTypes:UIUserNotificationTypeAlert |UIUserNotificationTypeBadge | UIUserNotificationTypeSound categories:nil];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:settings];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];
return YES;
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)newDeviceToken{
//Store the Device Token
NSLog(#"%#", newDeviceToken);
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:(NSError *)error{
NSLog(#"Failed to register with error: %#", error);
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo {
NSLog(#"Push received: %#", userInfo);
}
Server side:
public class PushServer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
BasicConfigurator.configure();
Push.alert("Message!", "***.p12", "***", false,
"92ab*************91af4");
} catch (CommunicationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (KeystoreException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
This is the output I receive when I try to send the notification:
0 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.Payload - Adding alert [Message!]
210 [main] DEBUG javapns.communication.ConnectionToAppleServer - Creating SSLSocketFactory
229 [main] DEBUG javapns.communication.ConnectionToAppleServer - Creating SSLSocket to gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195
1077 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Initialized Connection to Host: [gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com] Port: [2195]: 735b478[SSL_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL: Socket[addr=gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com/17.172.232.46,port=2195,localport=53762]]
1079 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Building Raw message from deviceToken and payload
1080 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Built raw message ID 1 of total length 73
1080 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Attempting to send notification: {"aps":{"alert":"Message!"}}
1080 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - to device: 92a**********1af4
2327 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Flushing
2327 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - At this point, the entire 73-bytes message has been streamed out successfully through the SSL connection
2327 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Notification sent on first attempt
2327 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Reading responses
2749 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Found 0 notifications that must be re-sent
2749 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - No notifications remaining to be resent
2749 [main] DEBUG javapns.notification.PushNotificationManager - Closing connection
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

By chance would you happen to be building with Xcode 7 and targeting iOS 9?
If so, you are likely running into the new security default setting which requires accessing URLs securely, as described here:
Disabling ATS for an in-app browser in iOS 9?
Also, you seem to be mixing old methods with new.
registerUserNotificationSettings is an iOS 8 method that replaced registerForRemoteNotificationTypes.
So, only using the former, it looks like you're only targeting iOS 8 and later.
But then you use didReceiveRemoteNotification:, which is the old version of the method, corresponding to registerForRemoteNotificationTypes. But since you're going with the newer versions, you should be using
didReceiveRemoteNotification:fetchCompletionHandler.

Answer 2

You need to convert NSData to string and get actual device token by implementing following changes in your method.
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken
{
NSString *myToken = [[[[deviceToken description] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: #"<" withString: #""]
stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: #">" withString: #""]
stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: #" " withString: #""];
// *** Now user `myToken` to send notification ***
NSLog(#"%#",myToken);
}
Along with it you need to make sure you are running your application with same provisional profile (Developer/Distribution) which is used to send push notification on your server side. both should be same. I hope its clear to you.