I am trying to find a way to integrate push notifications in OS X using Parse. It was a long and tedious process, so please carry me while I explain my situation.
This post explains that push notifications are not currently supported on OS X. However, it is mentioned that I can somehow implement Parse through their REST API. Someone also posted on Parse forums, and the same answer was given.
I tried following the REST API docs here and here , at the same time following the Deploy iOS SDK documentation . I implemented my own version of the PFInstallation class, as well as some other methods that are processed in the PFObject class, which allow you to synchronize data with Parse with success. Now I can synchronize with the Parse deviceToken, which I get when I call the registerForRemoteNotifications method.
However, I am now stuck at the stage where I am trying to send push notifications from the Parse control panel (also tried sending a test push notification via the REST API), and the notification is not sent due to Parse without having my APN Mac OS X certificate . I can find a way to download the iOS APNs certificate , which obviously won't work with my Mac app.
So, to summarize, is there any way to enable parsing alerts in a Mac OS X application? I tried to find other answers that simply end up claiming that the Parse Push API is not available on Mac (because it is not supported?) And that you should try and use the REST API (which I tried to do, but cannot, because for I have no way to specify my Mac APN certificate).
Thank you so much for this. Hope someone has an answer! If someone has the answer to why Parse does not support Mac OS X push notifications, I would also like to know why! Alternatively, if there are other great Mac OS X push notification providers, that would be great!