I'm developing an Alarm App.
When the alarm starts sounding I pop up an UIAlertView in order to offer the user the option to stop it. But when the app is in background the UIAlertView doesn't appears.
How can I do a UIAlert similar to the alert that uses the iOS Alarm?
Thanks!!
You could start reading about this: Apple documentation about notifications. You are probably most likely interested in local notification.
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Is there any Swift command to actually set the Auto-Lock to Never or a specific time period? I want to create a simple app that only has two buttons: one is to set the Auto-Lock to Never and the other one is to set it back to iOS default (1 min).
So when a user open this app and tap the Never button, s/he can open other apps but the iPhone or iPad will never auto lock while running the other apps. If s/he is done with other apps, s/he can open this app again and tap the Default button to set the Auto-Lock back to 1 min.
I understand this can be done from the Settings but I am just curious how I can do it from the backend using Swift.
I am new to Swift, btw.
Thanks much!
So when a user open this app and tap the Never button, s/he can open other apps but the iPhone or iPad will never auto lock while running the other apps
You can't do that. You are sandboxed. You cannot affect what happens to the user while running some other app.
When app is open, try to disable the idleTimer in viewDidLoad
UIApplication.shared.isIdleTimerDisabled = true
When app is closed to open other apps, try to -enable again idleTimer when yourViewController disappears, so put this in viewDidDisappear
UIApplication.shared.isIdleTimerDisabled = true
You need to make use of this API call to set the idle timer disable and enable.
This is in objective-C. Just convert it to swift. The API is available in UIApplication.h
-(void) onApplicationDidActivate:(NSNotification*) notification
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:NO];
}
-(void) onApplicationWillDeactivate
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:NO];
}
I'm currently using local notification to indicate incoming call from background mode. That's works fine, but this is what i see, when skype got a call in background mode:
So looks like it possible to show UIAlert from background and anybody can answer me how?
No you can not display an UIAlertView from the background, but you can scheudule a UILocalNotification.
Just set the fireDate property of the UILocalNotification to the current date and it will be displayed directly.
In my app there should be an alarm when a certain distance is covered. Originally, when the conditions are met, I wanted to move the app to the foreground, show an AlertView and play a sound. Due to answers to my former post I've implemented UILOcaLnotifications and it works fine for playing an AlertSound. Even when my app is in the background and thats great. One issue remains unsolved at this moment. I really want to popup a dialog (AlertView) when the conditions are met.
At this moment the ALert message is shown at the top of the screen (like a received message or missed call) but I want to present the user with a dialog (like in the clock app)
Does anyone knows a solution to this question? Help is most appreciated.
Did you try to assign alertBody and alertAction?
notification.alertBody = #"Some message";
notification.alertAction = #"View"; //title of action button
notification.hasAction = YES; //it YES by default
I want to show the UIAlertView when user Click the Iphone Home button( means Close the application)
I have done these Code
- (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application
{
NSString *errorString =#"Testing";
UIAlertView * errorAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Alert" message:errorString delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[errorAlert show];
[errorAlert release];
}
But UIAlertView is not Showing. please help
Thanks in Advance
The user aims to close your app when he/she presses the home button. Apple suggest to let him/her to that. What I want to say: Don't do that. I think it is even not possible.
Look at Problem with applicationShouldTerminate on iPhone:
The alert view is never shown because
the 'show' method does not block, and
therefore, the end of
'applicationWillTerminate' is reached
immediately after you create the
alert view and try to show it. I
believe this is by design. You can't
really begin asynchronous operations
in 'applicationWillTerminate'.
applicationWillTerminate: may not be called in the newer version of iOS when pressing the Home button because the app could be only entering the background mode, not actually terminating.
Even if it is actually called (either the app is really terminated, or you're moving the code to applicationWillEnterForeground:), showing the alert is useless because the alert is associated with the active app, and your app has gone inactive by the time the alert is shown! So what happened really is, the alert is gone when the user press the home button, and when they resume your app, they see a mysterious alert popping up.
Don't ask if the user wants to quit your app. This isn't the norm in iOS. Instead, save all states in applicationDidEnterBackground:, and restore them in applicationWillEnterForeground: and application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:, making the user feel as if the app has never been terminated.
You might not want to use applicationWillTerminate but rather applicationWillResignActive. Check older posts like this one for more info.
You can't show a uialertview when application receive SIGKILL(Exit) Command.You can call any file or background functions in applicationWillTerminate - To do that you need to set a key in your plist.
UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend - Boolean - YES.
I'm having a problem with applicationShouldTerminate.
What ever I do it seams that has no effect. Any help would be
appreciated.
I'm well versed in programing but this just gives me headache. Im going
over some basic tutorials for xcode , as I'm new to mac in general, and am currently looking at a simple flashlight app.
It exists but I would like to add a alert box here with option not to
quit.
(void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application
{
[application setIdleTimerDisabled:NO];
}
this has no effect, alert is closed even before its created.
(void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application
{
[application setIdleTimerDisabled:NO];
UIAlertView *alertTest = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:#"This is a Test"
message:#"This is the message contained
with a UIAlertView"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Button #1"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alertTest addButtonWithTitle:#"Button #2"];
[alertTest show];
[alertTest autorelease];
NSLog(#"Termination");
}
I did some reading online and found that it should be possible to do
this with
(NSApplicationTerminateReply)applicationShouldTerminate:(NSApplication*)sender
But no mater where I put that declaration I get error: syntax error
before NSApplicationTerminateReply.
There is no syntax error except that xcode seems not to recognize
NSApplicationTerminateReply as valid input.
Any sample code would be greatly appreciated.
I know this is a non-answer, but hopefully I can be helpful:
Displaying a "Really quit?"-type alert like this, even if you can pull it off technically (and I'm not sure you can), is a bad idea and is likely to either cause rejection from the App Store or, at best, an inconsistent user experience because no other apps do this.
The convention with iPhone apps is to save state if necessary, then yield control (for termination) as quickly as possible when the user hits the home button or switches apps.
To ensure a consistent experience, Apple probably has an aggressive timer in place to restrict what you can do in applicationWillTerminate. And even if they don't have a technical measure in place, they probably have an App Store approval policy to ensure that applications quit immediately when they're asked to.
applicationShouldTerminate and NSApplication do not exist on the iPhone. You have to use UIApplication.
The alert view is never shown because the 'show' method does not block, and therefore, the end of 'applicationWillTerminate' is reached immediately after you create the alert view and try to show it. I believe this is by design. You can't really begin asynchronous operations in 'applicationWillTerminate'.
With regards to the applicationShouldTerminate error, in case anyone's curious, NSApplicationTerminateReply and NSApplication seem to be deprecated...even though the OP's method is exactly how it appears in the docs!
Defining your method as the below should build with no errors:
-(BOOL)applicationShouldTerminate :(UIApplication *)application
I think I found the answer to what I wanted to do but will need to check it when I get back home.
Some directions were found here
http://blog.minus-zero.org/
The iPhone 2.0 software was recently released, and with it came the
ability for users to download native apps (i.e., not web sites)
directly to their phones from within the iPhone UI or via iTunes.
Developers (anyone who pays Apple 59GBP for the privilege) can then
write their own apps and have them available for purchase in the App
Store.
One limitation of the Apple-sanctioned SDK is that only one
application is allowed to be running at a time. This presents a
problem for apps such as IM clients, music players and other programs
whose functionality relies on being able to run in the background.
Another example (courtesy of James) would be an app that takes
advantage of the iPhone 3G's GPS chip to create a log of all the
places you visit.
However, there is a neat trick that I discovered: your app will only
get terminated if you switch away from it, and hitting the iPhone's
power button while your app is in the foreground doesn't count as
switching away. The upshot of this is you can create apps which
continue to run while the iPhone is in your pocket - perfect for the
GPS example.
Achieving this is as simple as implementing two methods in your
UIApplication delegate - applicationWillResignActive: and
applicationDidBecomeActive:. Here's a simple example to demonstrate
the effect.
In your UIApplication delegate header file, add a new ivar: BOOL
activeApp. Then, in your implementation, add the following three
methods:
- (void)applicationWillResignActive:(UIApplication *)application {
NSLog(#"resigning active status...");
activeApp = NO;
[self performSelector:#selector(sayHello) withObject:nil afterDelay:1.0];
}
- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application {
NSLog(#"becoming the active app...");
activeApp = YES;
}
- (void)sayHello {
NSLog(#"Hello!");
if (!activeApp)
[self performSelector:#selector(sayHello) withObject:nil afterDelay:1.0];
}