Device ID does not accept Apple devices (iPhone for example)

[gabn88]

The FCM deviceID now only accepts Android devices. This, while it is certainly possible to send push notifications to Apple devices using Google's FCM service.

I know it is possible to leave this field empty, but 1. it took me some time to find out why push notifications weren't working on iOS and 2. There is not good reason to only accept Android Device IDs.

[jamaalscarlett]

When FCM was added, I believe it was as an update to GCM which will be phased out at some point. But you are correct, FCM does allow for push notifcations to be sent to IOS devices. Feel free to submit a pull request :)

[jamaalscarlett]

This may be fixed by #386

[matthewh]

Issue #386 needs more testing to determine how it behaves with existing data. I am particularly concerned with how drf api calls would translate old ids. It may be hard to preserve backwards compatibility here.

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[gabn88]

Backwards compatibility? I would say, just make a CharField of it. Of course it would be cool to validate against both the spec of Android and Apple, but I cannot find a hard spec on the device id for both? Validation is also possible on a CharField and at least this is forward compatible, which a UUID field probably is not (if it is even compatible with all existing device IDs).

[matthewh]

I don't disagree with you @gabn88 but @jleclanche has generally disapproved of converting the Device ID field to a CharField.

[jleclanche]

Go for it.

[uber1geek]

Has this been fixed? I was thinking to use this app for implementing push notifications for our ios and android apps via fcm with a django backend. Please advise.

[gabn88]

Just go for this module and leave the deviceID field empty on ios for now.

[sevdog]

Any news about this? I run into this problem because UIDevice.current.identifierForVendor.uuidString returns a UUID while GCMDevice wants an HexInteger.

[sainipray]

Any update on this, because I need to save iOS device ID