UNNotificationAttachment with UIImage or Remote URL

Question

In my Notification Service Extension I am downloading an image from a URL to show as UNNotificationAttachment in a notification.

So I have

Answer 1

I've created a blogpost on this subject, focused on GIF images. But it should be easy to rewrite my code for simply images.

You need to create a Notification Service Extension:

And include this code:

final class NotificationService: UNNotificationServiceExtension {

    private var contentHandler: ((UNNotificationContent) -> Void)?
    private var bestAttemptContent: UNMutableNotificationContent?

    override internal func didReceiveNotificationRequest(request: UNNotificationRequest, withContentHandler contentHandler: (UNNotificationContent) -> Void){
        self.contentHandler = contentHandler
        bestAttemptContent = (request.content.mutableCopy() as? UNMutableNotificationContent)

        func failEarly() {
            contentHandler(request.content)
        }

        guard let content = (request.content.mutableCopy() as? UNMutableNotificationContent) else {
            return failEarly()
        }

        guard let attachmentURL = content.userInfo["attachment-url"] as? String else {
            return failEarly()
        }

        guard let imageData = NSData(contentsOfURL:NSURL(string: attachmentURL)!) else { return failEarly() }
        guard let attachment = UNNotificationAttachment.create("image.gif", data: imageData, options: nil) else { return failEarly() }

        content.attachments = [attachment]
        contentHandler(content.copy() as! UNNotificationContent)
    }

    override func serviceExtensionTimeWillExpire() {
        // Called just before the extension will be terminated by the system.
        // Use this as an opportunity to deliver your "best attempt" at modified content, otherwise the original push payload will be used.
        if let contentHandler = contentHandler, let bestAttemptContent =  bestAttemptContent {
            contentHandler(bestAttemptContent)
        }
    }

}

extension UNNotificationAttachment {

    /// Save the image to disk
    static func create(imageFileIdentifier: String, data: NSData, options: [NSObject : AnyObject]?) -> UNNotificationAttachment? {
        let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
        let tmpSubFolderName = NSProcessInfo.processInfo().globallyUniqueString
        let tmpSubFolderURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory()).URLByAppendingPathComponent(tmpSubFolderName, isDirectory: true)

        do {
            try fileManager.createDirectoryAtURL(tmpSubFolderURL!, withIntermediateDirectories: true, attributes: nil)
            let fileURL = tmpSubFolderURL?.URLByAppendingPathComponent(imageFileIdentifier)
            try data.writeToURL(fileURL!, options: [])
            let imageAttachment = try UNNotificationAttachment.init(identifier: imageFileIdentifier, URL: fileURL!, options: options)
            return imageAttachment
        } catch let error {
            print("error \(error)")
        }

        return nil
    }
}

For more information you can check my blogpost here: http://www.avanderlee.com/ios-10/rich-notifications-ios-10/