Notifications in iOS 11


Book Description

Learn how to generate local notifications from your iOS applications. After reading this guide, you will know how to schedule and display local notifications to the user, how to respond to system notifications, and how to communicate objects with each other using custom notifications and Key/Value observers. Table of Contents NOTIFICATIONS Notification Center System Notifications User Notifications User Notifications Framework Key/Value Observing KVC KVO QUICK REFERENCE NotificationCenter Notification System Notifications NSValue UIDevice UNUserNotificationCenter UNMutableNotificationContent UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger UNCalendarNotificationTrigger UNLocationNotificationTrigger UNNotificationRequest UNNotificationSound UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate UNNotificationAction UNTextInputNotificationAction UNNotificationCategory UNNotificationResponse NSKeyValueCoding NSKeyValueObserving This guide assumes that you have a basic knowledge of app development, Xcode, and the Swift language. If you don't know how to program in Swift or how to create an application with Xcode, download our guides Introduction to Swift and Interface Builder. For a complete course on app development for iOS, read our book iOS Apps for Masterminds. This guide is a collection of excerpts from the book iOS Apps for Masterminds. The information included in this guide will help you understand a particular aspect of app development in iOS, but it will not teach you everything you need to know to develop an app for Apple devices. If you need a complete course on app development for iOS, read our book iOS Apps for Masterminds. For more information, visit our website at www.formasterminds.com.




Intelligent Notification Systems


Book Description

Notifications provide a unique mechanism for increasing the effectiveness of real-time information delivery systems. However, notifications that demand users' attention at inopportune moments are more likely to have adverse effects and might become a cause of potential disruption rather than proving beneficial to users. In order to address these challenges a variety of intelligent notification mechanisms based on monitoring and learning users' behavior have been proposed. The goal of such mechanisms is maximizing users' receptivity to the delivered information by automatically inferring the right time and the right context for sending a certain type of information. This book presents an overview of the current state of the art in the area of intelligent notification mechanisms that rely on the awareness of users' context and preferences. We first present a survey of studies focusing on understanding and modeling users' interruptibility and receptivity to notifications from desktops and mobile devices. Then, we discuss the existing challenges and opportunities in developing mechanisms for intelligent notification systems in a variety of application scenarios.




User Acceptance of Mobile Notifications


Book Description

This book presents an alternative approach to studying smartphone-app user notifications. It starts with insights into user acceptance of mobile notifications in order to provide tools to support users in managing these. It extends previous research by investigating factors that influence users’ perception of notifications and proposes tools addressing the shortcomings of current systems. It presents a technical framework and testbed as an approach for evaluating the usage of mobile applications and notifications, and then discusses a series of studies based on this framework that investigate factors influencing users’ perceptions of mobile notifications. Lastly, a set of design guidelines for the usage of mobile notifications is derived that can be employed to support users in handling notifications on smartphones.




Technical guidance for the implementation of e-notification systems for food control


Book Description

Over a third of global agrifood exports cross borders at least twice before reaching the final consumer. The complexity of food supply chains and the growing importance of the global agrifood trade thus creates new and ever greater challenges for the management of food safety. Geographically dispersed foods that have been produced, processed and distributed by multiple actors can pose heightened food safety risks. Tracing the origins of unsafe food is also more complex and time-consuming. For this reason, many nations have implemented more rigorous systems of food control for agrifood imports, while many others need assistance to develop them. To this end, FAO developed this guidance as part of a project entitled 'Digital solutions in support of improved official food control services'. The aim is to provide guidance for the design and implementation of a food control e-notification system, one tailored to national needs and resources. This guidance includes the system’s legal basis, its structure and operational parameters, as well as its infrastructure and human resource requirements.







Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services


Book Description

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services covers the basic problems of notification applications, describes the SQL Notification Services platform and describes how to use it to build rich, scalable notification applications. Written by Shyam Pather, the Technical Lead for the SQL Notification Services Team, this book is based on his three years of experience teaching SQL Notification Services to new customers. This book is your complete resource for learning SQL Notification Services application development and the underlying architectural concepts.




Learning WatchKit Programming


Book Description

Create Breakthrough Apple Watch Apps with the WatchKit Framework With its Apple Watch and WatchKit framework, Apple is challenging developers to build exciting and innovative apps for Apple Watch. iOS developers who master Apple Watch programming now will have the same huge “early mover” advantage that early iPhone developers enjoyed. Learning WatchKit Programming is a complete, hands-on tutorial for all iOS developers who are ready to design and build tomorrow’s hottest new wearable apps. Leading iOS development trainer and author Wei-Meng Lee covers all of the fundamentals of Apple Watch development and the WatchKit API, from application architecture and design to navigation, notification, and glances. Using practical Swift code examples designed for clarity and simplicity, Lee guides you through building apps from the ground up and shows you how to integrate those apps with the iPhone for expanded capabilities. The perfect companion to other mobile development books in the Learning Series, this guide helps you extend your iOS skills to a whole new environment, build apps that solve a new set of problems, and reach millions of people in the new Apple Watch marketplace Coverage includes Getting started quickly with WatchKit and Apple Watch development Storyboarding apps and testing them on the Apple Watch Simulator Mastering Apple Watch’s multiple-screen navigation Building highly efficient interfaces with Apple Watch UI controls Customizing each screen’s look and feel, and passing data between them Responding to user interactions via buttons, switches, sliders, or Force Touch Displaying information via labels, images, or tables Communicating between an Apple Watch app and its containing iOS app Calling web services from Apple Watch Displaying short- and long-look notifications Customizing notifications to display your message’s essence more quickly Implementing glances to give users a faster way to gather information Localizing your Apple Watch apps All of this book’s sample Swift code is available for download at informit.com/title/9780134195445.










iPhone: The Missing Manual


Book Description

With the iOS 8.1 software and the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple has taken its flagship products into new realms of power and beauty. The modern iPhone comes with everything—camera, music player, Internet, flashlight—except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with this expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world’s most popular iPhone book. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. This book unearths all the secrets of the newest iPhones. Bigger screens, faster chips, astonishing cameras, WiFi calling, Apple Pay, crazy thin. The iOS 8.1 software. Older iPhone models gain predictive typing, iCloud Drive, Family Sharing, "Hey Siri," the Health app, and about 195 more new features. It’s all here, in these pages. The apps. That catalog of 1.3 million add-on programs makes the iPhone’s phone features almost secondary. Now you’ll know how to find, exploit, and troubleshoot those apps. The iPhone may be the world’s coolest computer, but it’s still a computer, with all of a computer’s complexities. iPhone: The Missing Manual is a funny, gorgeously illustrated guide to the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that will turn you, too, into an iPhone master.