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Jorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsIOS Notifications
Im trying to create a table view with table view cells that consist of tasks the tricky thing is to figure out how to receive and store user data and how to branch it out to the table view cells and its editable details of that matter. integrating notifications that are editable, scheduled and repeatable would be crucial. If anyone could give me some references to look up and investigate or any data/information that could possibly help me connect the dots to achieve this will be of help! Thank you.
3 Answers
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 PointsHello Jorge,
parse sounds like the right tool, parse handles users, it handles a ton of different post related content and messages, it handles push notifications, it is multi platform in case you need to make android or web, and treehouse has a course on it.
parse is one of those tool that I use commonly in my day to day development life and is a great tool for most apps requiring a social aspect and needs push notifications and I heavily advise you to try it out.
Kai
Soojin Ro
13,331 PointsWhat kinds of notification are you talking about? There are two kinds of 'notification' in iOS - local and remote Local notifications are shown to the user by scheduling an alert in your app. Remote notifications are sent by a remote server to notify user of an event. You have to implement a server to send messages to Apple's Push Notification Server. These two are quite different to implement so you have to decide which is suit for you.
And for storing data, you have quite a lot of choices. Core data, sqlite database, property lists(plists), NSUserDefaults, etc. you might want to look them over
Jorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsLearning and Implementing both types of notifications would be optimal, and for the data storage thats a lot of options I did not even know we could do that I will look them over. thanks for the support man =]
Jorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsI just want to say that this has broaden my spectrum of thinking and why not grow and root out even more.
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 Pointsawesome :)
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 PointsKai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 Pointsyes as Soojin Ro said there are to type, mine is regarding remote (ie. when you get a text your phone buzzes) but local is a set notification that the user (or you) set to go off in some set time (ie. a game wants you to come back after 12 hours).
parse also is for remotely storing data, but to store it locally you have lots of options, first, core data which is somewhat of a pain to set up for the first time but once it's up it's great, encoding, a lightweight way to store data, or user default, which is a very easy way to save user information (check out this awesome article for more on which is right for you).
Jorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsJorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsKai,
Parse sounds like a great tool that can handle many things and be able too multi platform. Its worth giving it a try, Thanks for the support =]
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 PointsKai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 PointsYa no problem and as i said earlier it is a course here on treehouse and so is coreData if you wanna check that one out
Jorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsJorge Alvarez
9,330 PointsHere comes the learning curve haha