I am developing an iPhone app. It has an option called automatic update. it can be updated automatically once in a week/month/6 months. Could you please let me know How can I invoke my desired method based on this setting even my app was not opened by the user?
You can't, the user will need to open the app, there is no way to schedule update routines.
You could inform the user that he/she need to update with an UILocalNotification, but I would suggest only to update your app when the users starts it.
It's against apples rules to push an updated app within your app. You have to resubmit to the app store.
what you can do is that increase badge count of application icon on receiving notification from UIlocalNotification.
when user open application check the application badge count if it is more than zero apply your logic to update application.
else there will be no update popup to client.
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Is there a way to store app notifications in a flutter app. Most of the time this app will be closed and the app notifications will not directly be hitting the app. I would like to store app notifications in a notifications received section. I know I can get the notifications if the app is opened, but for if the app is closed and it just shows as a status, I can't get them in the device unless the user clicks on the notification message. and it opens the app. What options do I have and is what I am wanting to do even possible?
First interpretation of your question: If I read your question correctly, you're saying its not possible to have text in your notifications when the app is not open. This is definitely possible, almost all your apps create notifications on the device with more than just 'status'.
Another interpretation of your question: In response to a firebase cloud messaging message, you might want to save data or do some other background task, instead of just creating a notification the user sees. This is not enabled by default. There's lots more instructions on enabling and using this in the README
By default background messaging is not enabled. To handle messages in the background:
The golden nugget of information is _firebaseMessaging.configure(onBackgroundMessage: yourBackgroundMessageHandler) which is not listed under the receiving messages section.
Let me know if I misread. What do you mean by status?
You can use background Fetch to make the app stay in the background. The package will awaken an app in the background about every 15 minutes.
Hello I was wondering if there are any methods that would allow me to interact with the iphone users. What I mean is like UIALERTVIEW of some sorts that will popup and update them with a status. But I don't want to have a fixed status, but one I can change anytime I want, like say if there is a day off, I want to provide a status over the air and when the user opens the app it will show the new message.
Is this even possible?
If there are any other alternatives please list them
The easiest solution would be that your app is contacting your website and downloads any message it should show on startup.
You can use Push Notifications to send users important updates automatically.
What you are looking for are called Push Notifications. They can put small numbers on your app's icon like the email app when you have new emails, or even show you popups when you need it. Start here: https://developer.apple.com/appstore/push-notifications/index.html
you can use Push notifications .. or build your own notification system by design a function fired when your application launching to contact your website and check if there any new notification .. then you present a pop , view whatever to show the notification.
I want to show the badge of notification on the App Store icon in iPhone after approving the update of application on the App Store.
Does developer has to do any thing for that badge of Notification or App Store will take care of it?
Please suggest me regarding it.
Thanks in advance.
You can't trigger this badge yourself.
The badge is updated once the user opens the App Store and the store checks for updates for all installed apps. If there are updates, the App Store will update this badge itself.
There's no central instance that triggers this badge, especially it is not "attached" to push notifications.
It's automatic, you don't have to do anything.
i would like to check:
if a user downloaded my app, than i make some update to app, data etc., itunes will auto remind the user of the update through app store, and the user can update for free? or do i have to set such reminder in my application?
else, is there a way for me to send this notification?
thks
Rgds
Yes, the phone notifies of app updates through the App Store app and app updates are free.
Alternatively, you can use push notifications to notify the user that a new version is available, or display an alert the next time they open the app.
To do the latter you can query the version of the app ([[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:#"CFBundleVersion"];) and compare it to a value provided by your web server.
I am looking for some way to automatically launch the app store on an iPhone from within an app. For example, the user logs in using the app, and the server requires a specific version of the app. Can I open the app store, or grab the upgrade automatically, or does the user need to go through the app store manually?
Thanks in advance,
Conrad
The user needs to go through the AppStore to get the upgrade. The user might choose not to upgrade the app for whatever reason and you can't force update.
Of course, you can navigate to the AppStore page and offer the choice to the user.
Have you tried [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:#"itms://..."] with the URL for your app?