I am working on push notification in iphone. when i receive push notification, its showing 1 on my application icon, next time its 2,3,4. if i open application its 0. Next time its should be 1,2,3,4... but its showing last number and +1. i want reset push notification badge after open application. i am sending +1 from urban airship.
and its not working for me.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] cancelAllLocalNotifications];
[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;
I use this code in my app because the Urban Airship (UA) documentation said to
[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;
[[UAPush shared] resetBadge];
but it doesn't work, the badge on the app icon keeps incrementing. I saw a few posts on this very issue on UA's forums and they haven't given a clear answer.
EDIT #1:
I received the following response from a support technician at UA with the following suggestions, which worked great:
What you want to do, is ensure that in your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions method, you are calling the following:
[[UAPush shared] setAutobadgeEnabled:YES];
[[UAPush shared] resetBadge];//zero badge on startup
and also call [[UAPush shared] resetBadge]; in the following methods as well:
applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application
and
didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
The technician also mentioned that assigning 0 to applicationIconBadgeNumber is not necessary, so I took it out. Still works beautifully.
EDIT #2:
I ended up having to modify application:didReceiveRemoteNotification: to include a call to UA's handleNotification:applicationState: method:
-(void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
{
// Get application state for iOS4.x+ devices, otherwise assume active
UIApplicationState appState = UIApplicationStateActive;
if ([application respondsToSelector:@selector(applicationState)])
{
appState = application.applicationState;
}
[[UAPush shared] handleNotification:userInfo applicationState:appState];
[[UAPush shared] resetBadge];
}
because I was having a problem with the following scenario:
- User is in app
- Push notification received
- No badge was displayed on app icon when returning to home screen (as expected)
- Another push notification is received
- Badge displayed number greater than 1
With the modification above, this scenario is handled. I guess you have to tell UA that the notification is handled when one is received and the app is running in the foreground.
I have used Urban Airship and have had this problem before. You are not showing the code but i am assuming that when a notification is received, you are setting the application badge number to what urban airship is passing to you, don't do that. Just let the application self handle this, when a remote notification comes in, let it auto increment on its own. If that is not the case it could be that, on the urban airship side, you are setting a badge number to send with the push. Do not send a badge number with the push notification, leave that part out, iOS should auto increment your badge from its current badge number.