improving apps with ios 10 notifications (do ios 2016)

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Hi, I’m Donny

Improving apps with iOS 10 notificationsBecause notifications can be pretty cool

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ContentsA quick history of notifications

Introduction to the UserNotifications framework

Service Extensions

Content Extensions

The bigger picture

iOS 7Text only notifications

Limited information and context

iOS 8Simple actions

Apple had a Text Input action for quick replies

iOS 9Developers could add the Text Input action

Less need to open the app

Everything < iOS 10

The difference between local and remote

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]) { }

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data) { }

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didReceive notification: UILocalNotification) { }

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegister notificationSettings: UIUserNotificationSettings) { }

Everything < iOS 10

And of course, it all goes in AppDelegate

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]) { }

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data) { }

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didReceive notification: UILocalNotification) { }

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegister notificationSettings: UIUserNotificationSettings) { }

Everything < iOS 10

Showing notifications while foregroundedThere’s one more thing…

iOS 10Media in notifications

Custom user interface

True end-to-end encryption

Unified framework

UserNotification at a glance

Unified Local and Remote

Single registration handler

Handle notifications through a delegate

Not compatible with < iOS 10

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {

}

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) { }

let notificationCenter = UNUserNotificationCenter.current() notificationCenter.getNotificationSettings { settings in if settings.authorizationStatus == .notDetermined { notificationCenter.requestAuthorization(options: [.badge, .alert]) { success, error in // handle status } } }

UserNotification at a glance

UIApplication.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications() APNSfunc application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data) { }

UserNotification at a glancelet content = UNMutableNotificationContent() content.title = “Next speaker"content.body = “Donny is up next" content.badge = 1

let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "thumbs", ofType: "png")! let imageUrl = URL(fileURLWithPath: path) let image = try! UNNotificationAttachment(identifier: "thumbs-up", url: imageUrl, options: nil) content.attachments = [image]

let trigger = UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger(timeInterval: 10, repeats: false) let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: “nextSpeaker", content: content, trigger: trigger)

notificationCenter.add(request, withCompletionHandler: nil)

Create notification contents

Schedule the notification

Update notification contents

UserNotification at a glance

Create notification contents

Schedule the notification

Update notification contents

And when you're in the foreground...

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) { completionHandler([.alert, .sound]) }

Service extensions

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Service Extension

End to end encryption

Send push with mutable-content: 1

Update contents

Limited time available

Service extensionsoverride func didReceive(_ request: UNNotificationRequest, withContentHandler contentHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationContent) -> Void) { self.contentHandler = contentHandler decryptedContent = (request.content.mutableCopy() as? UNMutableNotificationContent) if let decryptedContent = decryptedContent { decryptedContent.title = "Updated title" contentHandler(decryptedContent) } }

override func serviceExtensionTimeWillExpire() { if let contentHandler = contentHandler, let decryptedContent = decryptedContent { contentHandler(decryptedContent) } }

End to end encryption

Send push with mutable-content: 1

Update contents

Limited time available

Content extensionsView controller based extension

Extensions are tied to categories

Set content ratio in .plist

Actions are to added to notifications separately

<key>NSExtensionAttributes</key> <dict> <key>UNNotificationExtensionCategory</key> <string>wheel</string> <key>UNNotificationExtensionInitialContentSizeRatio</key> <real>1</real> </dict>

let content = UNMutableNotificationContent() content.title = "Spin the wheel?" content.body = "Win tickets for Do iOS" content.categoryIdentifier = "wheel" content.badge = 1

Content extensionsBring your own UI

Extensions don’t receive touches

Extensions do receive notification responses

Even less need for users to open your app

func didReceive(_ response: UNNotificationResponse, completionHandler completion: @escaping (UNNotificationContentExtensionResponseOption) -> Void) { if response.actionIdentifier == "spin" { wheel.spin() } }

Looking at the bigger picture

Stand out with Content Extensions

Design for short, quick interactions

Increased privacy with Service Extensions

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Service Extension

Looking at the bigger picture

Cleaner code, more maintainable

Only send meaningful messages

Use identifiers to update notifications if needed

Thank you