Can I manually create a registration token for my iPhone to use for Firebase Cloud Messaging?

Question

I am trying to play around with django-push-notifications to hopefully integrate it with our system soon. Part of our team is working on the app itself within Firebase, but as a Python backend developer, I would like to test out sending notifications to my personal iPhone. I have the proper APNS dev certs, and I have my device ID, but I don't know of a way I can manually create a registration token to allow me to send messages. The way that I understand it from reading the Firebase docs, it is created once a user engages with the app, and the Swift code in the app handles creating/retrieving and storing the user's registration token. Is that the only way a token can be generated? Not sure what the best way of trying to integrate django-push-notifications if that is the case.

Answer 1

There is currently no other way to generate the token other than calling getToken() on the client app's side.

You would have to need to ask your iOS dev friend to at least make a simple app that generates the token, so you could use it for testing.