Local Notification in iOS

Sample Code : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2857188/LocalNotificationDemo.zip

Reference Site : http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-local-notification-tutorial/

AppDelegate.m

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions

{ 

    application.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;

    

    return YES;

}

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification

{

    UIApplicationState state = [application applicationState];

    

    if (state == UIApplicationStateActive)

    {

        NSDate *date = [NSDate date];

        NSDateFormatter *timeFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

        timeFormatter.dateFormat = @"dd.MMM.yyyy";

        NSString *EventTitle = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ - Today Events",[timeFormatter stringFromDate:date]];

        

        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:EventTitle

                                                        message:notification.alertBody

                                                       delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"

                                              otherButtonTitles:nil];

        [alert show];

    }

    

    // Request to reload table view data

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"addEvent" object:self];

    

    // Set icon badge number to zero

    application.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;

}

LocalNotifyController.m

- (void)viewDidLoad

{

    [super viewDidLoad];

    

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(addEvent) name:@"addEvent" object:nil];

    

    [self reloaddata];

    [self remaining_days];

}

-(void)reloaddata

{

    //add Events

    NSArray *eventdates = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:@"2015-01-09",@"2015-01-10",@"2015-01-11",@"2015-01-12",@"2015-01-13",@"2015-01-14", nil];

    NSArray *eventfunctions = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:@"Buy Gold",@"Buy Silver",@"Buy Diamond",@"Golden day",@"Good Friday",@"Pongal", nil];

    

    for (int r=0; r<5; r++)

    {

        // Schedule the notification

        NSString *event = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ 17:00:00",[eventdates objectAtIndex:r]];

        

        NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

        [df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"];

        NSDate *myDate = [df dateFromString:event];

        

        UILocalNotification* localNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];

        localNotification.fireDate = myDate;//@"2015-01-09 11:03:31 +0000";

        localNotification.alertBody = [eventfunctions objectAtIndex:r];

        localNotification.alertAction = @"Continue";

        localNotification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;

        localNotification.timeZone = [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];

        localNotification.applicationIconBadgeNumber = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] applicationIconBadgeNumber] + 1;

        

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:localNotification];

        

        // Request to reload table view data

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"addEvent" object:self];

    }

}

-(void)addEvent

{

    //add more event

    

    //NSUserDefaults to find last date & add more events in UILocalNotification.

}

-(void)remaining_days

{

    //Get Count of Remaining Notifications

    int k = (int)[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduledLocalNotifications] count];

    NSLog(@"%d", k);

    

    // Get list of local notifications

    NSArray *localNotifications = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduledLocalNotifications];

    

    for (int i = 0; i < localNotifications.count; i++)

    {

        UILocalNotification *localNotification = [localNotifications objectAtIndex:i];

        

        // Display notification info

        NSString *str_Notify_Name = localNotification.alertBody;

        NSString *str_Notify_Date = [localNotification.fireDate description];

        

        NSLog(@"%@, %@", str_Notify_Name, str_Notify_Date);

    }

}