Agree that this is awesome-sauce! Congrats and great work.

And to answer Stefan's question, APNS *does not* work in the simulator, so
it requires real device testing, and you have to use the Apple Sandbox APNS
server + push certificate when debugging non-App Store builds.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Stefan Arentz <sare...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Thank you James! I'm on the two bugs about certificates, and I'll generate
> those soon.
>
> Question about testing: does this require a real device or does APNS also
> work in the iOS Simulator?
>
>  S.
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:35 AM, James Hugman <jhug...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm very pleased to say yesterday we landed the final piece of iOS code
>> to enable sending tabs to Firefox for iOS using WebPush.
>>
>> This is an important milestone for Firefox Accounts and Firefox for iOS –
>> in that we have a well understood connection from FxA to users' iOS devices.
>>
>> This will be hitting our BuddyBuild nightlies shortly, so now would be a
>> good time to start downloading it in readiness to test.
>>
>> The final steps to testing this feature are configuration: installing
>> APNS certificates for BuddyBuild builds on autopush servers, and flipping
>> the feature flags on for a widening testing pool.
>>
>> These are respectively covered by:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356069
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1357762
>>
>> There may also be some build issues which up until now are difficult to
>> test, around switching aps-environments (thanks Xcode!).
>>
>> Although there have been many people involved, special thanks should go
>> to :kitcambridge, :jrconlin, :jorem, :rfkelly, :sleroux and :sarentz for
>> their help in getting this feature working and landed.
>>
>> Many thanks, and regards,
>>
>> – James
>>
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