I am creating a Mac OS X application to use Notification Center. Some notifications should remain on the screen until the user interacts with them, and others should disappear shortly after displaying.
The NSUserNotificationAlertStyle key and changing System Preferences allow changing between banners and alerts. However, both approaches change all the notifications sent from my application.
Can I send some notifications as alerts and others as banners? If so, how?
NSUSerNotificationAlertStyle is the only way the developer can set the default notification style for the application, and it sets the style for all notifications from that app.
If you think it's really important for you to have 2 different kinds of notifications you can work around the problem by having a hidden helper application with a different NSUserNotificationAlertStyle than the main app.
Remember though you set the default notification style, but the user can change it whenever he wants in the notification center prefs, making your helper app useless.
No. The different notification types exist so that the user may select what he/she prefers, not so that the developer can.
If you feel your app should have this ability, you should file an enhancement request at http://bugreporter.apple.com and let Apple know.
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At work I have to modify an existing Application to differentiate incoming push notifications by the language of the news.
In Android I found a way to not send the push notification. So I could easily check for the language and only send the right one.
In iOS it seems a little different. (I'm not the Author of the existing code, so maybe I have overlooked something.)
But I can't find any function where I could intercept the incoming message.
I tried functions like UNUserNotificationCenter.Current.RemoveAllPendingNotificationRequests();
and
UIApplication.SharedApplication.CancelAllLocalNotifications();
But without any success... maybe I put them into the wrong place.
Thanks for hints and help
If I understand your question, the answer is it depends.
If you cannot change the push notification on the server, then no. The system will display it as soon as it arrives as it is formatted as the notification that needs to be displayed.
However, you can change the format of notification payload so that it doesn't display but it is rather processed by the application. Then you can process it in the app similar to what you do on Android.
I don't want to change the notification. I just don't want to show
it...
I don't think it is possible to choose which notification to show when your app is not running.
If your app isn't running then the notification is processed by iOS and your app doesn't get called.
You can have a look at answer in this thread.
Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/platform/user-notifications/
In doing some testing on the iOS 11 preview, I've noticed that when I get push notifications while my app is foregrounded the OS displays the system notification that you normally only see when your app is not active.
I didn't see anything announced as having been changed, or any new APIs to change this behavior one way or another. Does anyone know or have links to documentation stating if this is intended, a bug, temporary, or what?
There's an option for showing Push Notifications in the foreground in UserNotification framework.
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center
willPresentNotification:(UNNotification *)notification
withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions options))completionHandler
Quoting the comment from the Framework:
The method will be called on the delegate only if the application is in the foreground. If the method is not implemented or the handler is not called in a timely manner then the notification will not be presented. The application can choose to have the notification presented as a sound, badge, alert and/or in the notification list. This decision should be based on whether the information in the notification is otherwise visible to the user.
This could be the place to start looking for the answer.
My Watch app receives push notifications containing location information and I use that info to show a WKInterfaceMap.
However, when I tap on the map in the notification dynamic interface, my app is opened instead of the Maps app.
I found this forum post stating:
There is no url to call at this time. The user tapping on a WKInterfaceMap object is the only way to launch the Maps app from yours.
Does anyone know why this does not work with WKInterfaceMap objects in a notification?
Since notifications are not interactive, it's not possible to trigger any object interaction in a dynamic notification. Tapping anywhere in the notification area will always launch your watch app.
This is briefly mentioned in the App Programming Guide, under Designing Your Dynamic Interface:
Tapping your notification interface launches the app, so notification interfaces should not contain interactive controls.
In the System Preferences Notifications settings the user can select None, Banners or Alerts for each app. How can I determine the users chosen setting for my app? I've been searching on-line and in the docs without any success so far.
I've looked at How to check Notification alert style for our app? but that's for ios and is more about setting the alert style. I don't want to change the alert style - I just want to know what the user has set it to.
Is there anybody knows that if I received a push notification when my app is fully closed, but then I go back to open the app how can I detect this received notification and make certain changes pertain to this notification?
Thanks very much in advance.
I found out a way:
Just detect the Badge numbers, and set it as a user default in app delegate.
In other view controllers, you can perform stuffs depends on the badge numbers, which you can track from NSUserDefault.