I need to send a text message when the current time equals the time selected in the UIDatePicker. How might I do this? You don't need to include the code to send the message, I already have that coded. I've tried all sorts of things with NSTimer and if - then statements but none have worked.
Edit: Since I wrote this question I've found a better way to do things. I just need to set a local notification and when received execute my code with -(void)didRevieveLocalNotification. Here is what I have so that any googlers can hopefully be helped.
NSDate *pickerDate = [self.datePicker date];
//Set Local Notification
UILocalNotification *notif = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
notif.fireDate = pickerDate;
notif.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
notif.alertBody = #"Tap to send your text message!";
notif.alertAction = #"send message...";
notif.soundName = #"sms_alert_nova.caf";
notif.applicationIconBadgeNumber = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] applicationIconBadgeNumber] + 1;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:notif];
well i would use a local notification... something like this
UILocalNotification *notification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
notification.fireDate = theDate //The date that your picker has selected
notification.alertBody = #"Hey, the time just expired!"
notification.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 1;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:notif];
Then in your AppDelegate
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification {
//Code to manage the notification logic
}
Hope this helps, the user will get the alert even if on background.. if on background the user must click the alert to let your application know that the local notification triggered, if he does (or he is on your app already, then the app delegate method will trigger letting your app know that the notification fired...
Hope this helps!
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I am trying to setup a UILocalNotification to run every 30 seconds using the following logic, however it seems to be misbehaving. There are 2 issues:
When the notifications get fired there seems to be a lot of them all at once, rather than 1 every 30 seconds.
The application icon badge number doesn't seem to increase. It just stays at 1.
Please can someone help me work out what I've done wrong?
// Create 'base' notification we can use
UILocalNotification *baseNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
baseNotification.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
baseNotification.repeatInterval = NSMinuteCalendarUnit;
baseNotification.alertBody = #"My Message.";
baseNotification.alertAction = #"My Alert Action";
baseNotification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
UILocalNotification *alertOne = [baseNotification copy];
alertOne.applicationIconBadgeNumber++;
alertOne.fireDate = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:30];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:alertOne];
UILocalNotification *alertTwo = [baseNotification copy];
alertTwo.applicationIconBadgeNumber++;
alertTwo.fireDate = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:60];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:alertTwo];
Try this one.
UILocalNotification *baseNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
baseNotification.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
baseNotification.repeatInterval = NSMinuteCalendarUnit;
baseNotification.alertBody = #"My Message.";
baseNotification.alertAction = #"My Alert Action";
baseNotification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
UILocalNotification *alertOne = [baseNotification copy];
alertOne.fireDate = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:30];
alertOne.applicationIconBadgeNumber = [[UIApplication sharedApplication]applicationIconBadgeNumber]+1;
UILocalNotification *alertTwo = [baseNotification copy];
alertTwo.fireDate = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:60];
alertTwo.applicationIconBadgeNumber = [[UIApplication sharedApplication]applicationIconBadgeNumber]+1;
There is currently no way possible to achieve custom repeats with intervals.
However, the notification system can queue up to 64 notifications so the closest thing you could do is to manually set as many notifications as you need (with each one having a different number for the badge and a different fireDate) and then have your notifications list updated by setting new ones when you're running low on them.
This will return how many notifications you've in queue:
[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduledLocalNotifications] count]
There's also this post that I would recommend you reading for further help:
iOS badge number live update
Good luck!
Regarding second point, you're increasing the badge number of the copy not the original notification. And since the original has a zero badge number you'll always get a copy with zero badge number too and increasing it will make it always 1.
The solution is to increase the badge of the original notification right before making the copy:
...
baseNotification.applicationIconBadgeNumber++;
UILocalNotification *alertOne = [baseNotification copy];
alertOne.fireDate = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:30];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:alertOne];
baseNotification.applicationIconBadgeNumber++;
UILocalNotification *alertTwo = [baseNotification copy];
alertTwo.fireDate = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:60];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:alertTwo];
According NSObject class reference :
copy - Returns the object returned by copyWithZone:
And copyWithZone returns a shallow copy.
So its like all notification have same properties .
Hence , badge number is always "1" and fireDate is same for all notifications. i.e. last one that you apply .
Hence , notifications get fired at same time.
Hope , it helps.
I think you get a lot of notifications every 30 seconds is because you did not cancel previous notifications. Add this line at the top of your code.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] cancelAllLocalNotifications];
UILocalNotification *soundNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
soundNotification.repeatInterval = NSCalendarUnitMinute;
soundNotification.soundName = #"alarm.mp3";
soundNotification.fireDate = [NSDate date];
soundNotification.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
soundNotification.alertBody = #"alarm is ringing"; //commenting out this line stop callback.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:soundNotification];
The problem is that I don't want to define an alertBody for a notification. But still hit the callback
- (void)application:(UIApplication*)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(nonnull UILocalNotification *)notification
Because If I don't hit the callback the sound of the notification cannot be stopped even if you call
- (void)cancelLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification;
Is there a way to stop UILocalNotification sound without defining alertBody for the notification?
When I create my local notification callback didReceiveLocalNotificationgets triggered. The same callback gets triggered when I click on the local notification. Currently I was dividing those two cases by checking
if ([UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationState == UIApplicationStateInactive) {
//this means notification is clicked
}
But the main problem here is that when you are in the foreground and you slide your notification menu, and then receive your local notification, this callback didReceiveLocalNotification gets called. And in this case my app goes into this if. Because of this, I can't really distinguish from clicking the notification and creating a local notification while app is in the inactive state. Any ideas on how can I fix this?
This is the code for scheduling a local notification:
UILocalNotification* localNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
localNotification.alertBody = #"aaaa";
localNotification.alertTitle = #"title";
localNotification.userInfo = myUserInfo;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] presentLocalNotificationNow:localNotification];
After calling this, I get didReceiveLocalNotification delegate triggered.
I had to work around the exact same issue in my app. I couldn't find an offical way in the API to tell the difference, but here is a workaround.
Pass the current date in the userInfo when the local notification is created:
localNotification.userInfo = ["alertDate": NSDate()]
And when you handle didReceiveLocalNotification, check against current date again, to make sure it didn't just fire just a moment ago:
if application.applicationState == .Inactive {
if let alertDate = notification.userInfo?["alertDate"] as? NSDate
where (NSDate()).timeIntervalSinceDate(alertDate) > 0.1 {
// this means notification was initiated by user
}
}
UILocalNotification* localNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
localNotification.fireDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:1];
localNotification.alertBody = #"image inserted";
localNotification.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:localNotification];
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
I have simple UILocalNotification:
UILocalNotification *notification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
notification.alertBody = #"Message";
notification.alertAction = #"Action";
notification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
notification.category = kCategoryIdentifier;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] presentLocalNotificationNow:notification];
Is it possible, to repeat notification once, for example after two minutes? I want behaviour exacly, like in Messages app.
I have tried to set repeatInterval property of notification object, but:
Notification will be presented to user every two minutes, not repeated only once
System shows to user new notification, not repeat the old one. User see two notifications, one with timestamp 2 minutes after another.
Which is not what I've expected.
Also, because of second reason, I don't want to schedule two separate notifications.
Edit: In my app time when something happend is very important. Because of that, in lock screen, when notification is repeated, I want user to know that is something that happend earlier, not in time when notification arrives. So repeated notification should have timestamp of first notification.
Yes, you can set repeatInterval.
See documentation here
The calendar interval at which to reschedule the notification.
Declaration SWIFT var repeatInterval: NSCalendarUnit OBJECTIVE-C
#property(nonatomic) NSCalendarUnit repeatInterval
try this code
localNotif.timeZone = [NSTimeZone systemTimeZone];
localNotif.alertBody = #"Message";
localNotif.alertAction = #"View";
localNotif.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
localNotif.applicationIconBadgeNumber=1;
NSLog(#"LocalNotif.soundName %#",localNotif.soundName);
for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
{
localNotif.fireDate = [repeatAlarm dateByAddingTimeInterval:120*i];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:localNotif];
}
I know how to make a local notification in the applicationDidEnterBackground function in AppDelegate.
- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application
{
UILocalNotification * uln = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
uln.fireDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:10];
uln.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
uln.alertBody = #"Did you forget something?";
uln.alertAction = #"Show me";
uln.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
//uln.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;
uln.repeatInterval = NSMinuteCalendarUnit;
application.scheduledLocalNotifications = [NSArray arrayWithObject:uln];
}
But is that possible a user can set a time for the fireDate and a do not disturb time like late in midnight?
Yes you can set the firedate property to any date in the future. Do not disturb is possible for the user to trigger himself in Settings in iOS6.