iOS and watchOS App Development: Notifications

Learn how to use the iOS 12 and watchOS UserNotifications framework to develop local and remote notifications and create your own custom interfaces.

Introduction

• Add notifications to iOS apps
• What you should know
• Project and exercise files overview
• Setting up simulators

1. User Permissions

• Add the framework
• Ask user permission
• Check user permissions
• Test user permissions
• Use provisional permissions

2. Local Notifications

• Steps for local notifications
• Static notification content
• Dynamic notification content
• Time interval triggers
• Calendar notification triggers
• Notification requests
• Notification testing
• In-app notification

3. Notification Management

• Pending notifications
• Unique identifiers
• Delivered notifications
• Update notification content
• Update pending notifications
• Remove notifications
• Repeating notifications
• Remove all notifications
• Custom group notifications

4. Interacting with Notifications

• Get interactive with notifications
• Configure notification categories
• Add categories to notifications
• Add actions to categories
• Respond to action requests
• Code the action response
• Code the next action response
• Test actions
• Text response actions
• Text response requests

5. Push Notifications

• APNs and remote notifications
• Project settings for push notifications
• Register for notifications
• Get a certificate key
• Convert .p12 to .pem
• Get the token
• Test the notification

6. Push Notification Payloads

• JSON payloads
• Launch a JSON payload
• Alerts
• Actions
• Add user info in payload
• User info in app
• Grouped push notifications

7. The Service Extensions

• The notification extensions
• Add a service extension
• Code the notification extension

8. The Content Extension

• Add the content extension
• Change the UI
• Code the view controller
• Change plist settings
• Customize actions
• Customize requests
• Add buttons
• Use buttons for actions
• Code the snooze button

9. Rich Media in Notifications

• Types of media
• Image attachment
• Audio and video attachments
• Expired extensions
• Add an image in content extension
• Load an image from the web
• Test the image from the web

10. Apple Watch Notifications

• Watch notifications
• Watch looks
• Default watch notifications
• Watch notification interfaces
• Watch push notifications

Conclusion

• Next steps