Ask for User Permission to Receive UILocalNotifications in iOS 8

Question

I have set up local notifications in the App Delegate Using this:

- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application
{
    UILocalNotificati         


        

Answer 1

Put this code in the view controller where you will first program the notifications (if you program them at launch, then it will be application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:):

if ([UIApplication instancesRespondToSelector:@selector(registerUserNotificationSettings:)]) {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:[UIUserNotificationSettings settingsForTypes:UIUserNotificationTypeAlert|UIUserNotificationTypeSound categories:nil]];
}

In Swift:

if(UIApplication.instancesRespondToSelector(Selector("registerUserNotificationSettings:"))) {
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().registerUserNotificationSettings(UIUserNotificationSettings(forTypes: .Alert | .Sound, categories: nil))
}

The solutions that test against system version number are sub-optimal and error-prone.