i am a little bit confusing about Watchkit notification because the documentation say:
Apps are not required to do anything to support notifications. The system provides a default notification interface that displays the alert message from the notification. However, apps can customize the notification interface and include custom graphics, content, and branding.
My app receive remote notification, i want that Apple Watch notification, but without customization. In this case notification scene is mandatory inside the project or is necessary only if you want make a custom view?
The notification interfaces are needed only if you wish to customize them. If you don't include them, the Watch OS will present the alerts using a default interface.
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I want an app that can be opened automatically or by itself when app notification appears. I've been looking for this case but I don't find any solution.
This is not possible on iOS. You can not programmatically open an app based on a notification.
What you can do is to use silent pushes (those are push notifications that are invisible to the user) to wake up your application in the background. Using this mechanism, you can do some work in your app in the background (like fetching some data so it is instantly available later on).
Depending on your use case, this might be of use to you.
Let's say the iPhone has a text field or any internal data, upon the data change, I want to push it automatically to the Apple Watch. I know I can use the share data. But that seems to require user to initiate the call (e.g. pressing a button) on the Watch. Is there a listener on the Apple Watch that I can use if there is a change in the shared data? Or there is way for the iPhone to automatically push data to the watch, and the watch just receive it and display it? Or any other way?
You can see this answer. MMWormhole seems a good way to communicate between App and its extensions (i.e. Watch App).
Hope this helped.
I have created an App with Apple Watch extension.
I would like to know if it's possible to schedule a notification that only appears on the Apple Watch. And conversely, can we schedule a notification to only appear on the iPhone?
This is a great question, but unfortunately it is not possible at this time. Apple is trying to be very pragmatic about how they direct notifications. If you iPhone is unlocked, they assume you are looking at it and will route notifications there. If you iPhone is locked, then all notifications will be routed to your Apple Watch. They want to avoid duplicated notifications in both locations at all costs.
Currently there is no ability to force route remote or local notifications directly to the Watch only. If you feel strongly about this feature, then I would suggest you file an enhancement radar with the Apple Bug Reporting System.
In the official Apple documentation they said that:
Apple Watch takes full advantage of the existing interactive
notification support on iOS. If your iOS app supports notifications,
Apple Watch displays those notifications at appropriate times. When
one of your app’s local or remote notifications arrives on the user’s
iPhone, iOS decides whether to display that notification on the iPhone
or on the Apple Watch. For notifications sent to Apple Watch, the
system lets the the user know subtly that a notification is available.
If the user chooses to view the notification, the system displays an
abbreviated version of the notification first, followed by a more
detailed version. The user can dismiss the detailed notification,
launch your WatchKit app, or act on the notification by tapping an
available action button.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/WatchKitProgrammingGuide/BasicSupport.html
So I think you can tell to iOS the behavior of your notifications (When one of your app’s local or remote notifications arrives on the user’s
iPhone, iOS decides whether to display that notification on the iPhone
or on the Apple Watch. For notifications sent to Apple Watch, the
system lets the the user know subtly that a notification is available.)
Im creating a app and i would like know how to start a notification to apple watch from apple watch and from iphone to apple watch
I thought local and remote notification could anyone help me????
Do you mean notifications to test your app? Or notifications in general? For notifications in general, I think (but I'm not 100% sure tough) that right now you can't choose where a notification appears, and that both local and remote notifications received by the containing iPhone app will be displayed by Apple Watch (and you can customise their behaviour and style).
To test notifications on Apple Watch, edit the scheme of your watch app and choose to display a notification from a .apns file.
Notification (local or remote) will be appeared on your Apple Watch device as it is paired with your iPhone, iPhone is locked and watches are on your wrist.
To handle incoming notifications on your WatchKit App you should create a Notification Interface Controller in your WatchKit App target's storyboard.
First it will be as a static interface. Also you can add the dynamic one and create a subclass of WKUserNotificationInterfaceController in WatchKit Extension. Link this subclass with the storyboard dynamic notification controller in Identity Inspector pane.
After all you should implement next methods in your subclass:
- (void)didReceiveLocalNotification:withCompletion:
- (void)didReceiveRemoteNotification:withCompletion:
Hope it helps!
in completion with x401om awnser :
you can't fire a local notification from apple watch to iPhone. in fact you can't choose to :
Senario 1 : The user have the phone non-locked, the notification (local or push) is always delivered to the iphone, and not the watch
Senario 2 : The iphone is locked and watch is on you're watch, and you have done some local or push notification (for local at an date and time) then the apple watch recieve the notification.
Can we give notifications(which display for a moment and then disappear), in iPhone, (like toast in android).
If yes, Then How?
If no, then what is the alternative(except alert and action sheet)?
Thank You
There is no equivalent to Android Toast Notifications in the iPhone SDK (4.3). You have to implement those notifications on your own. The GameCenter framework has a similar capability to show achievements. There is a library to recreate these achievement-notifications without GameCenter:
https://github.com/typeoneerror/GKAchievementNotification
I recommend to read through this code, understand its key concepts and then start developing your own notification system with a custom UIView subclass and a custom notification handler class.