UILocalNotification is supposed to repeat every weekday, but fires on weekends as well

Question

I have a UILocalNotification that is supposed to fire once a day, Monday through Friday, but not on the weekend. I thought that setting the repeatInterval property of the no

Answer 1

You have to set day separately for local notification and set local Notification repeatInterval to NSWeekCalendar Unit. AS

            [self notificationWithItem:tempDict Date:[self SetDateForAlarmWithWeekday:2 :tempDict] andRepeatInterval:NSWeekCalendarUnit];
            [self notificationWithItem:tempDict Date:[self SetDateForAlarmWithWeekday:3 :tempDict]andRepeatInterval:NSWeekCalendarUnit];
            [self notificationWithItem:tempDict Date:[self SetDateForAlarmWithWeekday:4 :tempDict] andRepeatInterval:NSWeekCalendarUnit];
            [self notificationWithItem:tempDict Date:[self SetDateForAlarmWithWeekday:5 :tempDict] andRepeatInterval:NSWeekCalendarUnit];
            [self notificationWithItem:tempDict Date:[self SetDateForAlarmWithWeekday:6 :tempDict] andRepeatInterval:NSWeekCalendarUnit];

Here I have made the methods setDateForAlarmWithWeekday that returns date to be setted in fireDate property of local Notification and notificationWithItem that sets Local Notification.

-(void) notificationWithItem:(NSDictionary*)tmpdict Date:(NSDate *)date andRepeatInterval:(NSCalendarUnit)CalUnit
{
    UILocalNotification *localNotification =[[UILocalNotification alloc]init];

    if (localNotification==nil) {
        return;
    }

    localNotification.fireDate=date;
    localNotification.timeZone=[NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
    localNotification.repeatCalendar=[NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    localNotification.alertBody=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[tmpdict objectForKey:@"Reminder"]];

    NSDictionary *snoozeDic=[tmpdict objectForKey:@"Snooze"];
    if ([[snoozeDic valueForKey:@"Switch"]intValue]==1) {
        localNotification.alertAction=@"Snooze";
    }else
    {
        localNotification.hasAction=NO;
    }

    localNotification.repeatInterval=CalUnit;
    localNotification.soundName=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.caf",[tmpdict objectForKey:@"Tone"]];
    localNotification.userInfo=[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:tmpdict forKey:@"AlarmInfo"];
    localNotification.applicationIconBadgeNumber=1;

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication]scheduleLocalNotification:localNotification];

}


-(NSDate*)SetDateForAlarmWithWeekday:(int)WeekDay:(NSDictionary*)dics
{
    NSLog(@"set date for alarm called");
    NSCalendar *calendar=[NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    [calendar setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone]];

    unsigned currentFlag=NSDayCalendarUnit|NSMonthCalendarUnit|NSYearCalendarUnit|NSWeekdayCalendarUnit;

    NSDateComponents *comp=[calendar components:currentFlag fromDate:[NSDate date]];

    NSArray *array=[[dics objectForKey:@"Time"] componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];
    NSInteger hour=[[[[array objectAtIndex:0] componentsSeparatedByString:@":"] objectAtIndex:0] intValue];
    NSInteger min=[[[[array objectAtIndex:0] componentsSeparatedByString:@":"] objectAtIndex:1] intValue];

    if ([[array objectAtIndex:1] isEqualToString:@"PM"]) {
        hour=hour+12;
    }
    else
    {
        if (hour==12) {
            hour=0;
        }
    }

    comp.hour=hour;
    comp.minute=min;
    comp.second=0;

    NSLog(@"set date for alarm (%i:%i:%i)",comp.hour,comp.minute,comp.second);
    NSLog(@"weekday :%i ",WeekDay);
    NSLog(@"comp weekday %i",comp.weekday);
    int diff=(WeekDay-comp.weekday);
    NSLog(@"difference :%i",diff);

    int multiplier;
    if (WeekDay==0) {
     multiplier=0;
    }else
    {
     multiplier=diff>0?diff:(diff==0?diff:diff+7);
    }

    NSLog(@"multiplier :%i",multiplier);

    return [[calendar dateFromComponents:comp]dateByAddingTimeInterval:multiplier*secondsInOneDay];
}

I hope this will help u.