UILocalNotification is supposed to repeat every weekday, but fires on weekends as well

Question

I have a UILocalNotification that is supposed to fire once a day, Monday through Friday, but not on the weekend. I thought that setting the repeatInterval property of the no

Answer 1

I have also searched about it. Below code work good for me. Pass the week day value 1 to 7 Sunday to Saturday and notification body with action which you want to fire and specify your date then notification will come on that specific day. For weekends call this function twice with value 7 and 1 for Saturday and Sunday.

Hope this help you.

- (void) weekEndNotificationOnWeekday: (int)weekday :(UILocalNotification *)notification : (NSDate*) alramDate
{
    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

    NSDateComponents *componentsForFireDate = [calendar components:(NSYearCalendarUnit | NSWeekCalendarUnit |  NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit| NSSecondCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayCalendarUnit) fromDate: alramDate];
    [componentsForFireDate setWeekday: weekday] ; //for fixing Sunday
    //    [componentsForFireDate setHour: 20] ; //for fixing 8PM hour
    //    [componentsForFireDate setMinute:0] ;
    //    [componentsForFireDate setSecond:0] ;
    notification.repeatInterval = NSWeekCalendarUnit;
    notification.fireDate=[calendar dateFromComponents:componentsForFireDate];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:notification];

}