Question

I’ve been asked to work some alarm functionality, very similar to the Alarms functionality of the iPhone’s clock, into an application.

I see from the documentation that there are fire dates and ways to use the alert body as a label and all that good stuff. But if you wanted to mark an alarm as being “OFF” with a switch or inactive, is there a UILocalNotification property I could exploit for this purpose, to keep the notification in UIApplication scheduledLocalNotifications, but not fire (or at least, be hidden)? It seems like the only way to not have a notification fire when an application is in the background is to delete or unschedule it altogether, in which case my table view would no longer have the alarm/notification data to keep in display and mark as ON or OFF.

I hate to think I have to maintain alarms data in the app redundantly.

Answer 1

You could try setting the alertBody and soundName to nil. If that doesn’t work, you’re probably stuck keeping a redundant copy of the alarm data.