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iOS Help!!!! - Push Notifications activated by Location Services?

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Mav3rick40

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Hello, my name is Marc and I'm new to the forums, and I'm a first year student trying to make an iPhone/ipad app. It's a radio app the customer wants push notifications, where when you drive by like Walmart and if they have a special on soda it will push it to the app. I've tried Google to find out how to implement it but can't find anything so I don't know if it's even possible to do that. Thought I would ask here see if anyone can help.

Thanks in advance.

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waterskier2007

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Mav3rick40 said:
Hello, my name is Marc and I'm new to the forums, and I'm a first year student trying to make an iPhone/ipad app. It's a radio app the customer wants push notifications, where when you drive by like Walmart and if they have a special on soda it will push it to the app. I've tried Google to find out how to implement it but can't find anything so I don't know if it's even possible to do that. Thought I would ask here see if anyone can help.

Thanks in advance.

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk 2
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It actually may not even be a push notification. If you figure out some way to determine when you need to send a notification you can just send a local notification scheduled for one second in the future (or some small duration of time so that it gets fired right away).

There is a google places API that can find the location of things around the user, you could use that to find local stuff. After that, figuring out things like "Does XXXX have a special right now," I would leave up to you

Visit the page here to learn about local notifications
 
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Mav3rick40

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waterskier2007 said:
It actually may not even be a push notification. If you figure out some way to determine when you need to send a notification you can just send a local notification scheduled for one second in the future (or some small duration of time so that it gets fired right away).

There is a google places API that can find the location of things around the user, you could use that to find local stuff. After that, figuring out things like "Does XXXX have a special right now," I would leave up to you

Visit the page here to learn about local notifications
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Awesome, thanks for the quick response and information. I'll look into it. Thanks again.
 
KoolStar

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Your going to want to use the region tracking of core location and significant location change as to not impact the battery as much.
 
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moonman239

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KoolStar said:
Your going to want to use the region tracking of core location and significant location change as to not impact the battery as much.
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This may not be sufficient in some cases. If I remember correctly, I read a blog post where a guy did a test run. The testers drove a few miles before their devices triggered the "significant change" event. Maybe Apple changed the definition of "significant location change" so that it would actually be useful in this context. I say a better idea would be to get the user's location at least once every few seconds. Don't turn the GPS receiver on.
 
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Mav3rick40

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moonman239 said:
This may not be sufficient in some cases. If I remember correctly, I read a blog post where a guy did a test run. The testers drove a few miles before their devices triggered the "significant change" event. Maybe Apple changed the definition of "significant location change" so that it would actually be useful in this context. I say a better idea would be to get the user's location at least once every few seconds. Don't turn the GPS receiver on.
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Ok, but a push notification, doesn't it send it to everyone with that app?
 
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MacMan988

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Mav3rick40 said:
Hello, my name is Marc and I'm new to the forums, and I'm a first year student trying to make an iPhone/ipad app. It's a radio app the customer wants push notifications, where when you drive by like Walmart and if they have a special on soda it will push it to the app. I've tried Google to find out how to implement it but can't find anything so I don't know if it's even possible to do that. Thought I would ask here see if anyone can help.

Thanks in advance.

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk 2
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I have used pushwoosh push notifications in an app and they provide location based push notification service although I havent used that specific feature from pushwoosh.
 
waterskier2007

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Mav3rick40 said:
Ok, but a push notification, doesn't it send it to everyone with that app?
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No, when a user agrees to get push notifications, you should handle that in the App Delegate. You are given a unique "token" for each user (a unique identifier string) that you would then store on your server somewhere, tying it to that specific user. When you wanted to send a push notification to that user, you provide that token as part of the bundle you send to apples push notification service, and it gets sent to that specific user.
 
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