Does Corona support location aware notifications on iOS?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Like everyone else I’m venturing into mobile app-development coming from a background of developing for the desktop and the web.

I have a client who needs location aware notifications in an iOS app (and possibly Android). I’m trying to settle on a framework for this app, my first real mobile project, and Corona seems like a nice fit.

A user story goes like this: The user is out walking the town. She’s got her iPhone in her pocket and is listening to music via iTunes. As she walks into her local mall my app (running in the background) detects that she is in the proximity of a branch of her bank. My app also knows that the user has some errand to do at the bank. So my app interrupts the currently playing iTunes track, plays a notification sound and puts a notification text on the screen, telling the user that there’s a bank office nearby and that she might want to do that bank errand now.

Could this be done with Corona SDK?

thanks in advance, Oivvio
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#2

If you after push notifications (displaying the alert) and sadly no, this is not (yet) possibly with Corona :frowning:

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#3

If I read the Apple docs right it’s actually a “local notification” but it’s location aware. But I guess that doesn’t make a difference? [import]uid: 53581 topic_id: 14188 reply_id: 52278[/import]

#4

This can be done with Corona, but not with it running in the background. you can have a similar experience with CoronaSDK if the app was in the foreground and running.

Can discuss this further, but definitely not Public Domain…

cheers,

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