isabella232 / badgecountdemo

iOS Demo using history to perform background badge counts

push-demo

This was best practice on iOS 9 but is no longer best practice for iOS 10, use at your own discretion

Run "pod install" in root directory of repo to install pods and only open Push.xcworkspace

Need to have proper provisioning profiles and APNS certs. If you need help, go here.

To increment badge count, tap "publish" button in first view controller (from another device or sim!) or run curl command below:

curl 'https://ps5.pubnub.com/publish/pub-c-366ee301-3a9a-41ca-b3f2-d9dba11dbd10/sub-c-66eb5ede-fb1c-11e3-bacb-02ee2ddab7fe/0/teddyr/0/%7B%22pn_apns%22%3A%7B%22aps%22%3A%7B%22content-available%22%3A1%7D%7D%7D?uuid=073658ad-c8b2-44c4-9441-b59632b9c427'

This will cause the badge to increment for the app on a device (only apps on a device can receive push notifications!).

Note

This will fail to work under either condition:

• App has not been launched since the last restart
• App was force killed in app switcher

Background execution is kicked off by iOS itself, and is not necessarily instantaneous. It might a few seconds before execution begins, but shouldn't be more than a minute or two. Excecution involves 1 or more history calls, which is an API request. The client gets a maximum of 30 seconds to execute any code before it is stopped. Move quickly!