In IOS 10, apple updated their library for Notifications and separated Local and push notifications to a new framework:

User Notifications

This library makes it easy to setup a local notification and also includes easy configuration for repeating notifications using [ .None, .Minute, .Hourly, .Daily, .Monthly, .Yearly] .

It also includes all the new features, including inserting attachments and changing the launch image of a notification.

1. Features
2. Requirements
3. Installation
   • CocoaPods
   • Manually
4. Usage
   • Single Fire Notification
   • Repeating Notification starting at a Date
   • Notification that repeats from one Date to another with a time interval period
   • Modifying elements of the notification
   • Location Based Notification
   • Action Buttons
5. Contribute

Features

• Easily Repeat Notifications
• Location Based Notifications
• Category Action buttons
• Queue to enforce 64 notification limit

Requirements

• iOS 10.0+
• Xcode 8.0+

Installation

CocoaPods

You can use CocoaPods to install DLLocalNotifications by adding it to your Podfile:

platform :ios, '10.0'
use_frameworks!

target 'MyApp' do
	pod 'DLLocalNotifications'
end

Note: your iOS deployment target must be 10.0+

Usage

Single fire notification

Notification that repeats from one Date to another with a time interval period

// The date you would like the notification to fire at
let triggerDate = Date().addingTimeInterval(300)

let firstNotification = DLNotification(identifier: "firstNotification", alertTitle: "Notification Alert", alertBody: "You have successfully created a notification", date: triggerDate, repeats: .none)

let scheduler = DLNotificationScheduler()
scheduler.scheduleNotification(notification: firstNotification)
scheduler.scheduleAllNotifications()

Repeating Notification starting at a Date

The configuration of the repetition is chosen in the repeats parameter that can be [ .none, .minute, .hourly, .daily, .monthly, .yearly] .

let firstNotification = DLNotification(identifier: "firstNotification", alertTitle: "Notification Alert", alertBody: "You have successfully created a notification", date: Date(), repeats: .minute)

let scheduler = DLNotificationScheduler()
scheduler.scheduleNotification(notification: firstNotification)
scheduler.scheduleAllNotifications()

Notification that repeats from one Date to another with a time interval period

This is useful to setup notifications to repeat every specific time interval for in a specific time period of the day.

let scheduler = DLNotificationScheduler()

// This notification repeats every 15 seconds from a time period starting from 15 seconds from the current time till 5 minutes from the current time

scheduler.repeatsFromToDate(identifier: "First Notification", alertTitle: "Multiple Notifications", alertBody: "Progress", fromDate: Date().addingTimeInterval(15), toDate: Date().addingTimeInterval(300) , interval: 15, repeats: .none )
scheduler.scheduleAllNotifications()

Note: Since this library takes care of the 64 notification limit you would want to call scheduler.scheduleAllNotifications() in your AppDelegate file as well.

Modifying elements of the notification

You can modify elements of the notification before scheduling. Publically accessible variables include:

repeatInterval, alertBody, alertTitle, soundName, fireDate, attachments, launchImageName, category

let firstNotification = DLNotification(identifier: "firstNotification", alertTitle: "Notification Alert", alertBody: "You have successfully created a notification", date: Date(), repeats: .minute)

// You can now change the repeat interval here
firstNotification.repeatInterval = .yearly

// You can add a launch image name
firstNotification.launchImageName = "Hello.png"

let scheduler = DLNotificationScheduler()
scheduler.scheduleNotification(notification: firstNotification)
scheduler.scheduleAllNotifications()

Location Based Notification

The notification is triggered when a user enters a geo-fenced area.

let center = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 37.335400, longitude: -122.009201)
let region = CLCircularRegion(center: center, radius: 2000.0, identifier: "Headquarters")
region.notifyOnEntry = true
region.notifyOnExit = false

let locationNotification = DLNotification(identifier: "LocationNotification", alertTitle: "Notification Alert", alertBody: "You have reached work", region: region )

let scheduler = DLNotificationScheduler()
scheduler.scheduleNotification(notification: locationNotification)
scheduler.scheduleAllNotifications()

Adding action buttons to a notification

 let scheduler = DLNotificationScheduler()
        
 let standingCategory = DLCategory(categoryIdentifier: "standingReminder")
        
 standingCategory.addActionButton(identifier: "willStand", title: "Ok, got it")
 standingCategory.addActionButton(identifier: "willNotStand", title: "Cannot")
        
 scheduler.scheduleCategories(categories: [standingCategory])

Don't forget to the set the notification category before scheduling the notification using

notification.category = "standingReminder"

Cancelling a notification

 scheduler.cancelNotification(notification: notification)
      

Contribute

We would love for you to contribute to DLLocalNotifications, check the LICENSE file for more info.

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Devesh Laungani – @d7laungani

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