application:didReceiveLocalNotification never call

Question

Is there any known problem issue with:

application:didReceiveLocalNotification delegate

on iOS 8?

My application creates local notifications using UILocalNotification. When application is in background I get notifications, and when I click on the notification banner, it moves to my app. But this method:

-(void) application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification

is never called on iOS 8(Xcode 5.1.1), but works well on iOS 7 or earlier.

P.S. I've also tested project from this site: http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-local-notification-tutorial/ and it doesn't work on iOS 8.

Answer 1

Actually, the solution on iOS 8 is to request authorization for notifications settings to the user, otherwise the delegate method -didReceiveLocalNotification: will never be called. You can do so by adding this code to the -didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method:

if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 8.0)
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:[UIUserNotificationSettings
                                                                         settingsForTypes:(UIUserNotificationTypeSound | UIUserNotificationTypeAlert | UIUserNotificationTypeBadge)
                                                                         categories:nil]];
}

This will show the user an alert view asking for permission to display notifications. If she accepts, the delegate method will be called whenever a local notification is fired.

Answer 2

Use this for iOS8

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application handleActionWithIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier forLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification completionHandler:(void(^)())completionHandler{

}

Answer 3

I meet the same problem...

You must change to use the following code:

// register notification for push mechanism        
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 8.0) {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerUserNotificationSettings:[UIUserNotificationSettings
                                                                             settingsForTypes:(UIUserNotificationTypeSound | UIUserNotificationTypeAlert | UIUserNotificationTypeBadge)
                                                                             categories:nil]];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotifications];
} else {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:
         (UIUserNotificationTypeBadge | UIUserNotificationTypeSound | UIUserNotificationTypeAlert)];
}

to instead of the original:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert | UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound];

Answer 4

I have noticed the same on iOS8Beta5. Same code works fine on iOS8Beta4.

Edit: If as the answer suggests, we need to handle it differently - then why did they drop support between two beta builds. It would make sense if iOS8Beta1 build behaved this way. This is why I feel its a bug.