iOS and watchOS App Development: Notifications

Course details

Learn how to add notifications to iOS and watchOS apps. Notifications can increase engagement and improve user experience, providing a simple and fast way to interact with your app. This course explains how to use features of the UserNotifications framework to send local notifications as well as push notifications from a remote server. iOS developer and LinkedIn Learning instructor Steve Lipton explains how to create static and dynamic content; manage pending and delivered notifications; and add interactive actions to your notifications. Plus, learn how to integrate images, audio, and video into notifications, and build notifications specifically for watchOS.

Learning objectives
Requesting user permission
Static vs. dynamic notification content
Triggers
Sending local notifications
Updating and removing notifications
Creating custom notifications
Adding categories and actions to notifications
Pushing notifications
Building push notification payloads: alerts and actions
Adding service and content extensions
Attaching rich media: images, audio, and video
Creating watchOS notifications

Concepts

Introduction

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

User Permissions

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

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

Notification Management

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

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

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

Push Notification Payloads

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

The Service Extensions

The notification extensions
Add a service extension
Code the notification extension

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

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

Apple Watch Notifications

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

Conclusion

Next steps