UA Journal

Question 1

Is there any difference between Development and Prod as far as a test platform goes?

Answer 1

No. This may not be the case for subscriptions and IAP but who cares.

Question 2

What does push debug mode?

Answer 2

It pauses between each push to verify it has been accepted by APNS, adding around 0.25s of latency to each push. It also logs this on the push console on the user’s dashboard.

Question 3

How to do an HTTP GET

Answer 3

curl -u “APPKEY:APPSECRET” -H “Content-Type: application/json” https://go.urbanairship.com/api/device_tokens/DEVICETOKEN/

Question 4

What is a C2DM Auth token? is this the same as the c2dm_registration_id?

Answer 4

C2DM auth token is provided by C2DM to the application server when authenticating. The application server must request a new one when it expires. The c2dm_registration_id is the destination descriptor - it represents one app on one device.

Question 5

the prefix to the bundle ID is called the

Answer 5

bundle seed ID

Question 6

If someone wants their account completely deleted what do you do?

Answer 6

They can do it themselves, when they do it it affects billing.

Question 7

Are static libraries pre-compiled?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What is a static library? What is it’s file extension?

Answer 8

A static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and a stand-alone executable.

Question 9

5Why is…

Answer 9

finding a problem and going 5 “whys” back digging into why x happened.

Question 10

What kind of network layer does OSStatus error -9844 correlate with?

Answer 10

SSL - Secure sockets layer: connection refused error