iOS and watchOS App Development: Notifications

Course details

Learn how to add notifications to iOS and watchOS apps. Notifications can increase engagement and improve user experience, providing a simple and fast way to interact with your app. This course explains how to use features of the UserNotifications framework to send local notifications as well as push notifications from a remote server. iOS developer and LinkedIn Learning instructor Steve Lipton explains how to create static and dynamic content; manage pending and delivered notifications; and add interactive actions to your notifications. Plus, learn how to integrate images, audio, and video into notifications, and build notifications specifically for watchOS.

Learning objectives
Requesting user permission
Static vs. dynamic notification content
Triggers
Sending local notifications
Updating and removing notifications
Creating custom notifications
Adding categories and actions to notifications
Pushing notifications
Building push notification payloads: alerts and actions
Adding service and content extensions
Attaching rich media: images, audio, and video
Creating watchOS notifications

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Add notifications to iOS apps
02 - What you should know
03 - Project and exercise files overview
04 - Setting up simulators

1. User Permissions

05 - Add the framework
06 - Ask user permission
07 - Check user permissions
08 - Test user permissions
09 - Use provisional permissions

2. Local Notifications

10 - Steps for local notifications
11 - Static notification content
12 - Dynamic notification content
13 - Time interval triggers
14 - Calendar notification triggers
15 - Notification requests
16 - Notification testing
17 - In-app notification

3. Notification Management

18 - Pending notifications
19 - Unique identifiers
20 - Delivered notifications
21 - Update notification content
22 - Update pending notifications
23 - Remove notifications
24 - Repeating notifications
25 - Remove all notifications
26 - Custom group notifications

4. Interacting with Notifications

27 - Get interactive with notifications
28 - Configure notification categories
29 - Add categories to notifications
30 - Add actions to categories
31 - Respond to action requests
32 - Code the action response
33 - Code the next action response
34 - Test actions
35 - Text response actions
36 - Text response requests

5. Push Notifications

37 - APNs and remote notifications
38 - Project settings for push notifications
39 - Register for notifications
40 - Get a certificate key
41 - Convert .p12 to .pem
42 - Get the token
43 - Test the notification

6. Push Notification Payloads

44 - JSON payloads
45 - Launch a JSON payload
46 - Alerts
47 - Actions
48 - Add user info in payload
49 - User info in app
50 - Grouped push notifications

7. The Service Extensions

51 - The notification extensions
52 - Add a service extension
53 - Code the notification extension

8. The Content Extension

54 - Add the content extension
55 - Change the UI
56 - Code the view controller
57 - Change plist settings
58 - Customize actions
59 - Customize requests
60 - Add buttons
61 - Use buttons for actions
62 - Code the snooze button

9. Rich Media in Notifications

63 - Types of media
64 - Image attachment
65 - Audio and video attachments
66 - Expired extensions
67 - Add an image in content extension
68 - Load an image from the web
69 - Test the image from the web

10. Apple Watch Notifications

70 - Watch notifications
71 - Watch looks
72 - Default watch notifications
73 - Watch notification interfaces
74 - Watch push notifications

Conclusion

75 - Next steps