Question

You know how Temple Run sometimes has alerts when you open the App that appear even though you don’t update the App? I understand how you would implement this if you were to submit an update to your App, but how does Imangi implement new alerts without releasing new versions of the App? (I’m assuming they upload it from some server, but I’m an amateur at all of that stuff so could someone sorta vaguely explain how I might go about doing that? Will I need to learn Internet programming languages :O?)

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could host a plist online, with an array of alerts stored as dictionaries, with attributes like ‘title’, ‘body’ etc. The app would then parse this and to create an alert. You could then set up a method which searches for updates to this file every time the app opens and has connectivity.

This is not the only way – there are probably hundreds of other files types/ automated systems to use, however this is a simple way, and roughly how all of them work, and I have implemented something like this in some of my apps. Hope this helps, if you wan’t any help coding it, I will be happy to help!

Jonathan