Ios App Foreground Notification

As described in the push notification documentation you can read uiapplication sharedapplication applicationstate when you receive the notification to determine whether your app is in foreground inactive it s visible but a dialog like the wifi chooser is in front or in background.

Ios app foreground notification. If in active state fire a uilocalnotification. If your app is running it can be in two states. Either in the background or in the foreground.

If your app s server based content changes infrequently or at irregular intervals you can use background notifications to notify your app when new content becomes available. If you re using scenes see scenes uikit will not call this method use scene will enter foreground instead to prepare your app to enter the foreground. Please add ability to show notifications when app is in foreground in ios 10.

Process the data within the notification received handler while the app is running in the foreground or background. But we can achieve it by using uilocalnotification as follows. In ios 4 0 and later uikit calls this method as part of the transition from the background to the active state.

Push notifications are a nice way to inform your users about the offers user specific update or any message that you want to broadcast to all users. Process data within the native ios api within the appdelegate application didreceiveremotenotification fetchcompletionhandler method. Uikit posts a will enter foreground notification regardless of whether your app uses scenes.

Key to getting your notifications to show up while your app is in the foreground is also setting. Shouldalwaysalertwhileappisforeground in your unnotificationrequest. If the application is running in the foreground ios won t show a notification banner alert.

Apple does not allow the processing of background data if the app has been. Now you are good to go. To receive notifications in foreground on ios 10 devices.