what is apple iOS develop certificate and APNs Development iOS

Question

In Apple development certificate page there are 2 types of certificate:

1. iOS development
2. APNs Development iOS

What is the difference?

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Answer 1

iOS development : this type of signing certificate called a development certificate to identify yourself,

APNs Development iOS:Establish connectivity between your notification server and the Apple Push Notification service sandbox environment.

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Answer 2

iOS development certificate is that provide you development authority (code signing) that provide your application to testing environment for specific devices.

while APNS certificate allow the "Apple Push notification service " using this certificate. you can able to use "Apple Push notification service " for more detail of APNS refer this link http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1 this may help to understand about APNs.

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Answer 3

iOS development certificate is used for testing and deburing purpose. APNS certificate This is used for the push notification service. APNS communicate remote server to apple server for push notifications.

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