ios options to create time-based reminders or messages

[Charles E Buchwald]

Check out local notifications, in the iOS release notes, for alarm clock like alarms and messages. Push notifications are non-trivial. SMS would require a connection.

- Charles

On 2012-07-14, at 8:35 AM, Richard Miller wrote:

> What are the options to implement a reminder system in an ios/LC app which will alert the user periodically on their ios device, even though the app is not running in the foreground?
> 
> For example, the user runs the app and sets it to remind them twice daily to do a specific task. How can this reminder be implemented?
> 
> Some ideas:
> 
> - push notification (is this fairly easy to implement?)
> - having an external server send SMS messages to the user's device on the specified time interval
> - something similar to the way various ios Alarm clock apps work... but I don't know if this can be implemented through LC.
> 
> Thanks.
> Richard Miller
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