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Repeating a Local Notification after every 14 days(two weeks)?


In my app i've to set repetitive UILocalNotification. I'm able to set repeatInterval as daily, weekly etc by doing

UILocalNotification *localNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
localNotification.repeatInterval = NSDayCalendarUnit; // or any other calendarUnit

Ok..it's fine, but i've to set repeatInterval for every 14 days. i came to know from this link that we can only use one of the NSCalendarUnit repeat intervals. So you can have a repeat interval of one minute or one hour or one day but not five minutes or three hours or 14 days. Any Idea about this limitation in iOS 5 or later(that article was written for iOS 4.0)?


Solution

  • You can only set the repeat interval to a calendar unit. In order to get the right time interval you may have to set several notifications though.

    If you for instance wanted a notification every 20 minutes you would have to create 3 notifications 20 minutes apart with a repeat interval of NSHourCalendarUnit.

    The problem in your case is that the next thing up from the week unit is a month but a month is not exactly 4 weeks.

    To actually set a notification for every 14 days you will have to create 26 notifications with a repeat interval of NSYearCalendarUnit.