Sending Push Notifications to the iOS Simulator

Xcode 11.4 beta 1 surprised us last week with a long awaited feature: push notifications on the simulator! (standing ovation).

As anyone that ever had to debug push notifications on iOS knows, the process (depending on your backend implementation) is a bit of a hassle. Starting from the fact that a custom back end implementation might not have an easy way of sending push notifications in development/testing/staging environment, to the fact that you need an actual device to receive those notifications on. And as anyone who ever had to work with…