UILocalNotification to open detail view controller for a specific item

Question

I'd like to set alerts for specific items and have a UILocalNotification open a specific item from my table view controller and display its details. In other words, when a notification appears I'd like to be able to tap on "Show item" and instead of showing the list of all items I'd like to see the details of just that specific item.

For this to work I would need to store information on the specific item (title, index, etc.) How can I do this? Store the title of my item in UILocalNotification.userInfo?

Answer 1

To add information

Objective c

localNotification.userInfo =@{@"title":title,@"index":index};

Swift

var userInfo = [String:String]()
userInfo["title"] = title
userInfo["index"] = index
notification.userInfo = userInfo

To get information when notification arrive

Objective C

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification
{
    NSLog(@“title = %@”,notification.userInfo[@"title"]);
    NSLog(@“index = %@”,notification.userInfo[@"index"]);
}

Swift

func application(application: UIApplication!, didReceiveLocalNotification notification: UILocalNotification!) {
    println(notification.userInfo?["title"])
    println(notification.userInfo?["index"])
}

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Passing the "title" and "index" from the notification's userInfo to the Table View Controller

Objective C

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification
{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"BookNotification" object:notification.userInfo]
    // or update table view data source
}

Swift

func application(application: UIApplication!, didReceiveLocalNotification notification: UILocalNotification!) {
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("BookNotification", object:notification.userInfo)
    // or update table view data source
}

In Table View Controller add observer in when notification arrive get "title" and "index" then update Table View Controller datasource and reload tableview

Inside Table View Controller Objective C

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
    selector:@selector(receiveBookNotification:) 
    name:@"BookNotification"
    object:nil];


- (void) receiveTestNotification:(NSNotification *) notification
{ 
    NSString *title = notification.userInfo[@"title"];
    NSString *title = notification.userInfo[@"index"];
    // Update data source and reload
}

Swift

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "receiveBookNotification:", name:"BookNotification", object: nil)


func receiveTestNotification(notification: NSNotification) {
    let title = notification.userInfo?["title"]
    let index = notification.userInfo?["index"]
    // Update data source and reload
}