I want to implement a scheme whereby the server gets instructed by the app during a handshake whether the server should send pushes over the Apple sandbox environment or the production environment.
There's several variations where the push environment will vary depending upon the circumstances:
- Debug build/scheme with app installed via XCode
- Release build/scheme with app installed via XCode
- Developer distribution installed via .ipa/Apple Configurator app
- Ad hoc distribution installed via .ipa/Apple Configurator app
- App is installed from Testflight
- App is installed from the app store
Is there a way the app can programmatically detect at run time which push server should be used and thus it can instruct the server accordingly during its handshake with it? I guess this boils down to if the app is able to programatically detect at run time if there's a production provisioning profile being used or not? Or is there some other mechanism to detect which push server should be used?
There's a couple questions/answers on Stackoverflow about programatically detecting if a provisioning profile is present but they look a bit hacky and I don't know if they can be trusted to be future proof.
