How to get particular notification count number

Question

I have three categories of UILocalNotification - every Sunday, Monday and Saturday Notifications.

How to get the particular notification i.e Monday triggered count number. I have a notification UILocalNotification (not remote or push notification).

How do I get count of Monday Notification which are triggered within two Months?

Note: There is no scope of push or remote notifications.

Answer 1

You'd have to manually manage this, the way I would suggest doing it is by utilising the didReceiveLocalNotification method of your AppDelegate. Implement this and then check the fireDate property of your UILocalNotificationObject. You can parse this to be a day of the week by using the following code:

int dayOfWeek = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] component:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:notification.fireDate];

You can then store increment this value in the NSUserDefaults based on the number you have. 1 will be Monday, 2 Tuesday etc...

long dayOfWeek = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] component:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:notification.fireDate];
long currentCount = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"weekdayNotificationCount_%ld", dayOfWeek]];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger:currentCount + 1 forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"weekdayNotificationCount_%ld", dayOfWeek]];

That way you will always have a running total stored in your NSUserDefaults and this will only disappear if the app is deleted.