notifications – Tarik Billa

Check if Local Notifications are enabled in IOS 8

December 18, 2023 by Tarik

You can check it by using UIApplication ‘s currentUserNotificationSettings if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] respondsToSelector:@selector(currentUserNotificationSettings)]){ // Check it’s iOS 8 and above UIUserNotificationSettings *grantedSettings = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] currentUserNotificationSettings]; if (grantedSettings.types == UIUserNotificationTypeNone) { NSLog(@”No permiossion granted”); } else if (grantedSettings.types & UIUserNotificationTypeSound & UIUserNotificationTypeAlert ){ NSLog(@”Sound and alert permissions “); } else if (grantedSettings.types & UIUserNotificationTypeAlert){ NSLog(@”Alert … Read more

WordPress shows I have 1 plugin update, when all plugins are already updated

December 10, 2023 by Tarik

I see this from time to time with premium plugins and themes that require an activation key. The WP UI won’t provide anyway to update the plugin or theme, but you’ll see the pending update count number in the UI. To track down the source I use the following function: /** * Debug Pending Updates … Read more

Slack: is there a way to disable all @channel notifications [closed]

August 10, 2023 by Tarik

I was looking for the same and I saw that nobody answered, so this is what I’ve found: you cannot and you won’t ever be able to. @channel: everybody in a channel, it’s a kind of contract with the user and everybody inside a channel should receive a notification. The point is that Slack has … Read more

Toastr: How to prevent fade out with sticky toast on mouseover?

May 2, 2023 by Tarik

Set extendedTimeOut to 0 too. That will keep it sticky.

Building a notification system [closed]

November 12, 2022 by Tarik

A notification is about something (object = event, friendship..) being changed (verb = added, requested..) by someone (actor) and reported to the user (subject). Here is a normalized data structure (though I’ve used MongoDB). You need to notify certain users about changes. So it’s per-user notifications.. meaning that if there were 100 users involved, you … Read more