I have a scenario where I need to remind user after every specific period of time (usually 3 days) using local notification and not using internet based push-notifications.
I am using react native and have a background in Native Android specifically. I am looking for something similar to AlarmService or preferably SyncAdapter for iOS that can either be native or react-native based.
I ended up making my own simple module for handling scheduled local notifications... below is a snippet I am using for scheduling notification.
UNUserNotificationCenter *center = [UNUserNotificationCenter currentNotificationCenter];
//check notification permission
[center getNotificationSettingsWithCompletionHandler:^(UNNotificationSettings * _Nonnull settings) {
if (settings.authorizationStatus != UNAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
// Notifications not allowed
}else{
// show notificaiton
RCTLogInfo(@"Showing Notification with title: %@", title);
//set notification content
UNMutableNotificationContent *content = [UNMutableNotificationContent new];
content.title = title;
content.body = body;
content.sound = [UNNotificationSound defaultSound];
//add timer in ms
NSTimeInterval timeInterval = interval;
UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger *trigger = [UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger triggerWithTimeInterval:timeInterval repeats:NO];
//set identifier with any string
NSString *identifier = id;
UNNotificationRequest *request = [UNNotificationRequest requestWithIdentifier:identifier content:content trigger:trigger];
//request for scheduling notification
[center addNotificationRequest:request withCompletionHandler:^(NSError * _Nullable error) {
if(error != nil){
RCTLogInfo(@"Something went wrong: %@", error);
};
}];
}
}];
It's a stripped down version of my schedular, actual code also have support for adding image attachments but since this specific post was only about scheduling them, that's I had to drop some of the functionality.