schedule local repeatedly notification - how?

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#1

Hello all!

I would like to set periodicaly reminders, for example in a daily base.

The system.scheduleNotification() seems not to handle this.

Am I right?

I am thinking of creating a table with maaaaany notifications, save this ti a file, so to be able to cancel them later.

Who knows a good / better way to do this and would like to share?

Thanks,

Fotis.

#2

You can only set a local notification either by some seconds in the future or some absolute time.  There is no “set one tomorrow” type feature.   You could either calculate the number of seconds (os.time() + (24 * 60 * 60) to get the same time tomorrow or some other method of setting your future date.

#3

Thank you Rob for the answer.

What I would like to do is to push local notifications every day at 10.00 for ever, until the user cancel this. Or every evening for 30 days, etc.

#4

Here’s some code I use in my game Veggie Blast to help with retention. Hope it helps!

 --schedule a retention message once a day over the next 30 days local minutesInSeconds = 60 local hoursInSeconds =minutesInSeconds\*60 local dayInSeconds = hoursInSeconds\*24 local currentTime = os.date() local currentHour = tonumber(currentTime:sub(12,13)) local currentMinutes = tonumber(currentTime:sub(15,16)) local currentSeconds = tonumber(currentTime:sub(18,19)) local secondsToRemoveToStartAt12am = (currentHour \* hoursInSeconds) - (currentMinutes \* minutesInSeconds) - currentSeconds local days = 30 local timeToSendNotification = 10\*hoursInSeconds --this will set it to go off at 10am every day for i=1, days do local time = dayInSeconds\*i - secondsToRemoveToStartAt12am + timeToSendNotification local options = { alert = "notification message", badge = 1, sound = "alert.caf", } system.scheduleNotification(time, options ) end
#5

You can only set a local notification either by some seconds in the future or some absolute time.  There is no “set one tomorrow” type feature.   You could either calculate the number of seconds (os.time() + (24 * 60 * 60) to get the same time tomorrow or some other method of setting your future date.

#6

Thank you Rob for the answer.

What I would like to do is to push local notifications every day at 10.00 for ever, until the user cancel this. Or every evening for 30 days, etc.

#7

Here’s some code I use in my game Veggie Blast to help with retention. Hope it helps!

 --schedule a retention message once a day over the next 30 days local minutesInSeconds = 60 local hoursInSeconds =minutesInSeconds\*60 local dayInSeconds = hoursInSeconds\*24 local currentTime = os.date() local currentHour = tonumber(currentTime:sub(12,13)) local currentMinutes = tonumber(currentTime:sub(15,16)) local currentSeconds = tonumber(currentTime:sub(18,19)) local secondsToRemoveToStartAt12am = (currentHour \* hoursInSeconds) - (currentMinutes \* minutesInSeconds) - currentSeconds local days = 30 local timeToSendNotification = 10\*hoursInSeconds --this will set it to go off at 10am every day for i=1, days do local time = dayInSeconds\*i - secondsToRemoveToStartAt12am + timeToSendNotification local options = { alert = "notification message", badge = 1, sound = "alert.caf", } system.scheduleNotification(time, options ) end
#8

Hi did you set a flag to tell your app that you have already setup notifications? I was wondering what would happen if I set up two notifications at the same time and they pile up? 

#9

Hi did you set a flag to tell your app that you have already setup notifications? I was wondering what would happen if I set up two notifications at the same time and they pile up?