iOS Badge Number But No Push Notification

[oo7ml]

Hi,

Is it possible to add and increase a badge number on the app icon, without sending a push notification.

For example, my app has a 'like' feature similar to facebook, however i don't want the user to receive a push notification every time another likes their content, but i would like to increase their badge number so that they can see that their has been activity with their content.

Is this possible? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Ann P]

Badge Number But No Push Notification

Oops ignore sorry. Didn't see this was in programming, lol.

 

[waterskier2007]

In iOS 8 (see below for iOS 7) you have the option of what type of notifications you want to register, here is my code below

UIUserNotificationType types = UIUserNotificationTypeBadge |
UIUserNotificationTypeSound | UIUserNotificationTypeAlert;
    
UIUserNotificationSettings *mySettings = [UIUserNotificationSettings settingsForTypes:types categories:nil];
    
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:mySettings];

And then I have this in my app delegate

-(void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterUserNotificationSettings:(UIUserNotificationSettings *)notificationSettings
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];
}

So you could just change the settings that you want to register, by passing just the "UIUserNotificationTypeBadge" flag

For iOS 7: you just call

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge];

or whatever type you want to use. Note that this is deprecated in iOS 8

 

[leventozler]

Send a push notification with only the badge key.

 

[oo7ml]

Ok great, thanks.