How to initialize local notification? - iphone

Question

I want to implement local notification in my clock app.Basically i want that a music file should be played after every half an hour like in ship's clock in which chimes are played after every 30 minutes.
Can anyone give rough idea as how i can implement this functionality even when the app enters in background?

Answer 1

I recently used the Local notification stuff and used the following functions
//Setting up the Local Notifications
for (int i= 1 ; i<=10; i++) { //We here set 10 Notification after every 30 minutes from now you can modify it accordingly
NSDate *scheduled = [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:60*30*i]; //These are seconds
NSDictionary* dataDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:scheduled,FIRE_TIME_KEY,#"Background Notification received",NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE_KEY,nil];
[self scheduleNotificationWithItem:dataDict];
}
Where scheduleNotificationWithItem is defined as
- (void)scheduleNotificationWithItem:(NSDictionary*)item {
UILocalNotification *localNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
if (localNotification == nil) return;
localNotification.fireDate = [item valueForKey:FIRE_TIME_KEY];
localNotification.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
localNotification.alertBody = [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(#"%#", nil), [item valueForKey:NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE_KEY]];
localNotification.alertAction = NSLocalizedString(#"View Details", nil);
localNotification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
localNotification.userInfo = item;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:localNotification];
[localNotification release];
}
Finally you can handle these notifications as
You can handle these notifications as follows
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification {
// Do the required work you can obtain additional Info via notification.userInfo which happens to be a dictionary
}
reading the developer documentation will help you more to understand the stuff.Hope it helps

Answer 2

You can use UILocalNotifications and set their 'firedate', according to your requirement and then schedule the notification. These notifications doesn't bother whether your app is running or is in background they will always show up like an alertview.