I have a problem scheduling UILocalNotifications.
My case is this: when user selects motivation category there is a dialog screen where he selects how many times in a day, week, month, motivation message should be presented to him. Then he selects time period: a day, week or a month. A motivation category has messages, and every category has different number of messages.
So my question is: how should i schedule those notifications? Main problem i think is that there can be more than one category. Can someone tell me how to do this?
I know that i cant schedule more than 64 notifications, so i cant schedule all notifications when category is selected. And i know i could reschedule notifications in
application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
or
application:didReceiveLocalNotification:
I hope i have been clear about my problem.
First write a function that manages the local notifications
that is it has to check if there are 64 notifications scheduled if not then you may add some notification.(you have to handle DB part well for example setting the flags correctly)
Call the function in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: just in case some notifications are expired or missed
You have to call the function in all the places where local notification is handled.
The user taps a custom action button in an iOS 8 notification.
In this case, iOS calls
application:handleActionWithIdentifier:forLocalNotification:completionHandler:
You also get the local notification object, so that you can retrieve any information you need to handle the action.
The user taps the default button in the alert or taps the app icon.
The system launches the app and the app calls its delegate’s method, passing in the local notification object
application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
The notification is delivered when the app is running in the foreground.
The app calls the UIApplicationDelegate method
application:didReceiveLocalNotification:
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I hope this helps.
If it doesn't cover your problem feel free to ask doubts
It works as pool when you utilized all your available notifications then you need to reschedule the free notifications in
application:didReceiveLocalNotification: but every time you are gonna reschedule you can find next notification to user that could be in today, tomorrow. Whenever you are in application:didReceiveLocalNotification: findout when to notify next and schedule.
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So I have a working app that sends notifications every day reminding you to mark something complete. Right now the problem is that even when they have marked all requirements, they still get the notification. Is there a way to conditionally fire a notification? For example, only fire the notification if A==false.
If the user marks all requirements, remove the corresponding notification from the notification center.
I have published a diet planning iOS App. I've had users ask if they could have notifications pop up on there phone when it's time for them to eat a meal. For example, if they set their set their wake up time on the App at 7am, every 3 hours an alert would pop up and remind them to eat, so would be 10am, 1pm, 4pm...
Currently I have not implemented push notifications. I have been ready about iOS Push Notification Services, and I'm thinking that is there an easier way to accomplished this? Some sort of scheduled notification. I feel I shouldn't need any network integration to perform this fairly simple task. Any suggestions are welcome. thank you
It looks like UILocalNotification is exactly what you want.
From the linked documentation:
After creating a UILocalNotification object, schedule it using either the scheduleLocalNotification: or presentLocalNotificationNow: method of the UIApplication class. The scheduleLocalNotification: method uses the fire date to schedule delivery; the presentLocalNotificationNow: method presents the notification immediately, regardless of the value of fireDate. You can cancel one or more local notifications using the cancelLocalNotification: or cancelAllLocalNotifications method of the UIApplication object.
I am wondering if it's possible to do what the titles says. I have an application that has a refill reminder to refill your prescription drug via local notifications. I have seen that some apps (pill reminder apps mostly) push a notification if you have not taken your pill, or have not answered back to that notification, and was wondering if I can do the same if a user doesn't open/interact with the app after a certain period of time.
I have not began implementation but have thought about this thoroughly. What I am thinking of doing is having some sort of flag when the app is opened that removes that local notification and sets a new one once the app has gone in the background/inactive. The local notification would be set to three months from when the app has gone in the background/inactive. The question then becomes, how do I handle canceling all notifications after this notification has been received, regardless of whether the user opens the app at that notification or not?
If the user opens the app on that notification, I can have a check the method application:didReceiveLocalNotification and then handle the case where that local notification has been set and then use [[UIApplication sharedApplication] cancelAllLocalNotifications]
But if the user does not tap or open the app, how can I check and cancel all local notifications?
Sorry if this is a bit long or worded weirdly (sorry not good with words and explaining things). Let me know if you need more info or better explanation. Thanks in advance!
If I understand your question correctly, you want to know how to keep notifications from repeating when the user does not respond to a notification by opening your app.
You might consider configuring your local notification not to repeat. Instead, you might reschedule notification batches each time the application is launched.
Alternatively, if your application has a server-side component, you can use push notifications on iOS 7+ to wake your app, briefly. There is no equivalent to this behavior using UILocalNotification.
I am working on an app for a trash company. The idea is as follow:
There is a calendar for 2012/2013 with dates when and what trash can (brown, gree and black) will be picked up.
I need to make a kind of notification system which will send a notification on a specific day (from that array) with some text about what container will be picked up this week.
That would not be smart to post all notifications at once coz there are over 100 (and I've heard the limit is 64 in iOS).
I thought to schedule next notification after the current one fires. This could be done in the kind of handleNotification method when user touches the action-button at the notification and goes to the app. But what if the user gets enough information from the notification window and never touches that notification, never goes to the app and mostly have it in the "non running" state at all?
How to schedule next notification then?
Maybe some smart heads can come with other ways to make it works without using UILocalNotification?
There is no way.
If the user never opens up your app you will at most have 64 scheduled notifications. When all those have been triggered there will be no more notifications.
Although you can have your notifications repeating. So if the brown trash can will be picked up every week you can set a repat interval of weekly instead of scheduling it 52 times (thus saving 51 notifications).
The previous posting on here regarding deleting notifications from the notification center claim its not possible to delete individual notifications, only all of them.
However individual notifications do get deleted for the reminder app - set 3 reminders to fire in a couple of minutes, when they fire go to the notification center, now select one, after the reminder app launches go back to the notification center and that specific notification has been deleted but others remain. So how is this achieved?
The Reminders app probably fires local notifications. Local notifications can be withdrawn, using cancelLocalNotification: on UIApplication.
(Additionally, push notifications when sent using the enhanced call (first byte is 1) supports an expiry parameter (when sending, not inside the JSON payload) that is supposed to mean that this notification, if not delivered by a certain date, should not be delivered. It is possible that this parameter is also used in a similar way to hide received notifications.
It is also highly possible that Apple's own apps do whatever the hell they want.)
When the user taps on the notification:
If the app was running in the background, you retrieve it using AppDelegate's method didReceiveLocalNotification.
If it wasn't running, then the notification can be obtained with the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method. You just need to search the launchOptions dictionary for the UIApplicationLaunchOptionsLocalNotificationKey.
If you want to delete specific notifications which have already fired, specially when the user doesn't enter the app by tapping on the notification, then it's probably better to store them in NSUserDefaults so that you can still obtain them later. That approach is explained here.