Handling Push Notifications when App is NOT running (i.e Totally Killed)

Question

I\'m able to send push notifications to my IOS device. But when I click on that notification it just opens the app. No message is shown inside the app.

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Answer 1

Handling Push Notifications when App is NOT running (or Totally Killed)

I'm posting this solution as it worked for me.

Go to your AppDelegate.m file.

Step 1: Write this code inside this function:

-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication*)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary*)launchOptions
{

  UILocalNotification *localNotif = [launchOptions objectForKey:UIApplicationLaunchOptionsRemoteNotificationKey];

 if (localNotif) {

        NSString *cancelTitle = @"Close";
        NSString *showTitle = @"OK";
        NSString *message = [[localNotif valueForKey:@"aps"] valueForKey:@"alert"];
        UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Message Received"
                                                            message:message
                                                           delegate:self
                                                  cancelButtonTitle:cancelTitle
                                                  otherButtonTitles:showTitle, nil];
        [alertView show];


    }

}

Step 2:

Insert This full code:

-(void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
{

NSLog(@"%s..userInfo=%@",__FUNCTION__,userInfo);

/**
     * Dump your code here according to your requirement after receiving push
     */

    if (application.applicationState == UIApplicationStateActive) {
        NSString *cancelTitle = @"Close";
        NSString *showTitle = @"OK";
        NSString *message = [[userInfo valueForKey:@"aps"] valueForKey:@"alert"];
        UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Message Received"
                                                            message:message
                                                           delegate:self
                                                  cancelButtonTitle:cancelTitle
                                                  otherButtonTitles:showTitle, nil];
        [alertView show];

    } 

    else if(application.applicationState == UIApplicationStateBackground){

        //app is in background, if content-available key of your notification is set to 1, poll to your backend to retrieve data and update your interface here


        NSString *cancelTitle = @"Close";
        NSString *showTitle = @"OK";
        NSString *message = [[userInfo valueForKey:@"aps"] valueForKey:@"alert"];
        UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Message Received"
                                                            message:message
                                                           delegate:self
                                                  cancelButtonTitle:cancelTitle
                                                  otherButtonTitles:showTitle, nil];
        [alertView show];

    }


    else if(application.applicationState == UIApplicationStateInactive){

        //app is in background, if content-available key of your notification is set to 1, poll to your backend to retrieve data and update your interface here


        NSString *cancelTitle = @"Close";
        NSString *showTitle = @"OK";
        NSString *message = [[userInfo valueForKey:@"aps"] valueForKey:@"alert"];
        UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Message Received"
                                                            message:message
                                                           delegate:self
                                                  cancelButtonTitle:cancelTitle
                                                  otherButtonTitles:showTitle, nil];
        [alertView show];

    }


}

This whole code will work whether app is Active, InActive or Totally Killed. It will give you AlertView for push messages.