How to Create UILocalNotification for Multiple firedates - ios

Question

Hi in my Application I have Multiple events for every event i need to create one UILocalNotification for example like I want to say wishes on Fathers day,Mothers and some festivals. So I already i have the specific date now I want to fire it on the particular day please how to do this. I have already done for single UILocalNotification Now I need for multiple firedates.
My code.
- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application
{
NSCalendar *regCalender =[NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *dateComponent = [regCalender components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
[dateComponent setYear:2014];
[dateComponent setMonth:7];
[dateComponent setDay:8];
[dateComponent setHour:15];
[dateComponent setMinute:31];
UIDatePicker *dd = [[UIDatePicker alloc]init];
[dd setDate:[regCalender dateFromComponents:dateComponent]];
UILocalNotification *notification = [[UILocalNotification alloc]init];
[notification setAlertBody:#"Welcome"];
[notification setFireDate:dd.date];
[notification setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone]];
notification.soundName=#"double_tone.mp3";
[application setScheduledLocalNotifications:[NSArray arrayWithObject:notification]];
}
I have used this above code for single firedate UILocalNotification please tell me how to do it for multiple firedates.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is the answer,
In compsForFireDate you can ad multiple date and you can call it yearly
-(void) YearlyNotification: (int)year :(UILocalNotification *)notification : (NSDate*) alramDate
{
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *compsForFireDate = [calendar components:(NSYearCalendarUnit | NSWeekCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit| NSSecondCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayCalendarUnit) fromDate: alramDate];
[compsForFireDate setHour: 10] ; //for fixing 10AM hour
[compsForFireDate setMinute:0] ;
[compsForFireDate setSecond:0] ;
notification.repeatInterval = NSYearCalendarUnit;
notification.fireDate=[calendar dateFromComponents:compsForFireDate];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:notification];
}

Answer 2

I'm guessing you are registering the notification with setScheduledLocalNotifications: which will replace any existing notification. This is clearly stated in the documentation.
To schedule a single UILocalNotification use -(void)scheduleLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification
Here I have create a methods that take a date and a string to schedule an UILocalNotification:
-(void) addLocalNotificationForDate:(NSDate *)date withAlertBody:(NSString *)alertBody {
UILocalNotification *notification = [[UILocalNotification alloc]init];
[notification setAlertBody:alertBody];
[notification setFireDate:date];
[notification setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone]];
notification.soundName=#"double_tone.mp3";
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:notification];
}