In my Notification Service Extension
I am downloading an image from a URL to show as UNNotificationAttachment
in a notification.
So I have this image as UIImage and don't see the need to write it in my app directory / group container on disc just to set up the notification.
Is there a good way create an UNNotificationAttachment
with a UIImage ?
(should be appliable to local and remote notifications)
NSData
representation of the UIImage
into the newly created directoryI wrote an extension on UINotificationAttachment
extension UNNotificationAttachment {
static func create(identifier: String, image: UIImage, options: [NSObject : AnyObject]?) -> UNNotificationAttachment? {
let fileManager = FileManager.default
let tmpSubFolderName = ProcessInfo.processInfo.globallyUniqueString
let tmpSubFolderURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory()).appendingPathComponent(tmpSubFolderName, isDirectory: true)
do {
try fileManager.createDirectory(at: tmpSubFolderURL, withIntermediateDirectories: true, attributes: nil)
let imageFileIdentifier = identifier+".png"
let fileURL = tmpSubFolderURL.appendingPathComponent(imageFileIdentifier)
let imageData = UIImage.pngData(image)
try imageData()?.write(to: fileURL)
let imageAttachment = try UNNotificationAttachment.init(identifier: imageFileIdentifier, url: fileURL, options: options)
return imageAttachment
} catch {
print("error " + error.localizedDescription)
}
return nil
}
}
So to create UNUserNotificationRequest
with UNUserNotificationAttachment
from a UIImage
you can simply do sth like this
let identifier = ProcessInfo.processInfo.globallyUniqueString
let content = UNMutableNotificationContent()
content.title = "Hello"
content.body = "World"
if let attachment = UNNotificationAttachment.create(identifier: identifier, image: myImage, options: nil) {
// where myImage is any UIImage
content.attachments = [attachment]
}
let trigger = UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger(timeInterval: 120.0, repeats: false)
let request = UNNotificationRequest.init(identifier: identifier, content: content, trigger: trigger)
UNUserNotificationCenter.current().add(request) { (error) in
// handle error
}
This should work since UNNotificationAttachment
will copy the image file to an own location.