Daily scheduled notifications

Question

I need a bit of guidance, so for my application i\'m looking at using local notifications to send a notification every morning at 7 o\'clock.

The issue i\'m having is h

Answer 1

Here's a little lesson about notifications. First, what is a notification? It's basically an alert presented on your behalf by the system. Second, there are two kinds of notification: local and remote.

Let's imagine, then, an app that aims to present a notification to the user every morning at 7 AM saying what the current temperature is outside. (Assume for purposes of the example that we have a way of learning this information.)

A moment's thought will reveal that this cannot be done with local notifications. We cannot know the current temperature at 7 AM until 7 AM (or close to it) and we cannot schedule the notification unless the app is running. Therefore we would need the great good luck to have the app running at 6:59 AM in order for this app to work. But an app only runs when the user summons it, so that is extremely unlikely.

Therefore a task of this kind is possible only with remote notifications. A remote server is always running; therefore it can get the temperature and "ping" the user's device at 7 AM, and the system will present the notification on your behalf. You would therefore need to possess such a server in order to write the imagined app.

(An alternative using local notifications would be this: You schedule, say, a week's worth of local notification in advance. Then if you have the great good luck to find the app running before a notification is presented, you tear down all the scheduled notifications and do it again with a more up-to-date forecast. But of course this cannot possibly work as well as using remote notifications, and it will stop working entirely after a week if the user doesn't launch the app. That, to put it bluntly, sounds pretty lame.)