Turning off push notification

Solar2D iOS
#1

First, I am not 100% sure if I need Push Notification or not. I believe that I do not need it. My app is a simulator for emergency triage: it presents the user with a randomly-generated icon that indicates a symptom, waits for the user to select the next step in the triage process, shows a new icon symbolizing that step, and waits for another button tap, and so on until the triage case is completed.

From what I understand, push notification allows a remote server to push information to the device while the app is not running. To the best of my understanding, I have no reason to do this. All the app does is show icons and wait for taps.

The problem is that when I first run a newly-installed version of the app, I get a popup warning me that the app wants to do push notification. This irritates the heck out of me, even as a developer. I certainly don’t want to inflict this on my users. By the way, this is a new thing that started when I upgraded my rig to iOS 8.

*** Is there a way to disable push notifications in the source code so that this popup does not pop up?

Thank you

#2

Do you have a ‘notification’ section in your config.lua file? If so you should remove it.

#3

That seems to have done the job. Since the source code just says “notification” and I was looking for “push” I did not notice it.

As a side note, is this popup a new thing in iOS 8? I had never seen it before. (The app has been in the stores for several months now, having been written under iOS 7.)

Also, will removing notification cause trouble with anything else, like the App Store notifying existing users about new versions of the app?

#4

Good to hear.

It’s not new in iOS8, not sure why you haven’t seen it before.

There should be no side effects other than push not working which you are not using anyway.

#5

Do you have a ‘notification’ section in your config.lua file? If so you should remove it.

#6

That seems to have done the job. Since the source code just says “notification” and I was looking for “push” I did not notice it.

As a side note, is this popup a new thing in iOS 8? I had never seen it before. (The app has been in the stores for several months now, having been written under iOS 7.)

Also, will removing notification cause trouble with anything else, like the App Store notifying existing users about new versions of the app?

#7

Good to hear.

It’s not new in iOS8, not sure why you haven’t seen it before.

There should be no side effects other than push not working which you are not using anyway.