I would like to add a feature to my social app, which can send a push notification to a specific user, is he's not active.
For exemple, if the user has not logged in for 7 days: I would like to send him a push notification "Hey, it's been a while since you've logged in! Come see the new posts".
I know how to send a push notification to a specific user (that's not the problem), but I don't know how to create an automatic function which is able to know if the user didn't logged in for 7 days.
Do you know if it is possible ?
Ps: I'm using Firebase.
You can use local notification here which is good solution I guess.
Whenever user open's the app schedule the local notification of after 7 days from current date. ( Make sure to remove previously schedule notification before adding new one. )
In this case if user open the app notification will reschedule automatically else notification will fire based on last schedule of it.
I did this way in one app and it worked as I explained.
I think this feature can be executed on the Front-end side. All you need is about Local Notifications. When the user opens the app, you will create a local notification for next 7 days and delete the old one in case user open the app within 7 days.
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I'm working on an ionic project.
If users don't open the application for a long time after downloading my app, I'd like to send them local notification.
For example, I will send a notification if it does not open for 3 days. But I couldn't figure out how.
Can you help me?
You can use the following to send notifications from server:
Create one table in your database to track user activities.
Add columns as userId, lastActivity to store the time of the user's activity.
Update the lastActivity column whenever the user opens the app.
Write one scheduler which will run at a specific time every day.
In the scheduler write a logic to get data from UserActivity table and compare the time stored in the table with your current time.
If the time difference is greater than 3 days then send a notification to that user.
For local notifications here is a way:
Whenever user open's the app schedule the local notification of after 3 days from current date. ( Make sure to remove previously schedule notification before adding new one. )
In this case if user open the app notification will reschedule automatically else notification will fire based on last schedule of it.
You can create a system in which you track user like ,
if user's opens your App then you must update true value for that user with time in your database and now you can compare current time with user's time value and if its more then 3 days you must send notification to that user.
I want to reset the notification badge number whenever the app is opened. This works perfectly fine calling
application.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0
UNUserNotificationCenter.current().removeAllDeliveredNotifications()
However, when I one ore more new notifications come in, the icon badge number again goes to 42 no matter how many notifications come in.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
You can follow one of the following for achieving this,
You can store notifications received in your database and when user opens app, you can get the count of unread notifications and update the count.
If you are targeting single users then, you can get the delivery of Push notifications using https://stackoverflow.com/a/50044201/5084797 and then when the notification is opened you can pass notification Open event to server. So the next time the server sends push notification, they can just check for the difference in Deliver and Open and send that count in badge. If user has cleared all notifications from Notification centre without opening them. In that case as soon as App opens you need to update that at server, Else you might be getting wrong count from server.
I am creating an app using Swift and Parse as my backend platform. In my application a User can send an invitation to be connected to another user and as soon as they are connected the app should send notifications to remind the user about his friend’s birthday.
In this scenario I have two moments in which the app should send a notification:
1- When user A sends an invitation to user B, user B should receive a notification
2- When it’s user’s B birthday, user A should receive a notification and vice versa
I created a Parse object called AppNotification that is responsible for storing information about the notifications the user should receive. So when a user sends an invitation to another user I am adding a line in the AppNotification table, the same happens when it’s a birthday of a friend. Using this I can calculate the number of unread notifications and show it to the user in the UI using the components badge.
My question is more related to the best way to send the birthday notification. What I am considering is:
1- When user A sends and invitation to user B I have to send a push notification to user B.
2- As soon as the users are connected I can schedule local notifications to remind them about the birthday. This solution would use Local Notifications instead of Push Notifications.
3- Or create a Job in Parse that will be executed every day and will read all the users whose birthday is today and send a push notification to his friends. This solution would use Push notifications and I would not need to worry about scheduling local notifications.
Between the points 2 and 3 which one is the best solution? Is there any other approach I could use? When should I consider using Local Notifications other than Remote Notifications?
Thank you in advance.
Regarding points 2 and 3: there are pros and cons for both options: Having the reminders as local notifications is basically what your local calendar app does, i.e. you don't need a connection the Internet / Parse. However: what happens if one party (A) decides that she no longer wants to be a "friend" (of B)? Should notifications still be sent? If not, you could easily delete the scheduled notification on the server. This would also ensure that the other party (B) wouldn't receive notifications of a former friend (A) if she didn't open the app in the meantime and synced the list of friends.
There are of course more pros and cons, so it is really a matter of your preference and possibly other constraints (e.g. should an active internet connection be necessity?).
Is it possible to tell user what were about recently received push notifications ? I mean, if user clicks cancel when push was received, there is a badge on the icon of my application, but that's all. I think this is not user friendly and such notifications have no sense. When user opens an application, he knows that there is something new in it, but don't know exactly what. Do I need to make some requests to my web server to have information about my last pushes or I'm missing something and there is another way ?
From the implementations of push notifications I've worked with so far, you'll need to make a call to your server when the app actually starts up in order for the app to know what the new information is. I don't believe there's any way to store received push notifications unless your app is opened and handling them in the app delegate. Otherwise if push notification is closed it's discarded.
In all the apps I've worked with that utilized push notifications there was a place in the app where all the recent notifications were displayed after a call to the server was made to get the whole list.
If a user said NO to push notifications the first time, i'm not sure how to request that again at a latter time, is there a way to do this?
Thanks so much!
EDIT:
What i mean is that When the user uses the app for the first time, you can request the user to allow our app to send push notifications, if the user sais NO, i don't know if i can request the same thing at a latter time. Hope i made myself clear this time
I assume you're referring to registration - the dialog that pops up when you request push notification registration for the first time.
You do not have control over when this dialog appears. You cannot 'request' it to appear a second time - what you can do is advise users to go into the Settings app, where they can manually enable push notifications for your app. The next time your app runs the push notification registration will succeed.
Hope that helps!