cocoaplayground/simulatorremotenotifications

Library to send (fake) remote notifications to the iOS simulator

SimulatorRemoteNotifications

SimulatorRemoteNotifications is an iOS library to send (fake) remote notifications to the iOS simulator.

The library extends UIApplication by embedding a mini server that listen for udp packets containing JSON-formated payload.

Note that SimulatorRemoteNotifications does not send notification through Apple's Push Service.

Usage

In your iOS project:

1. Add the SimulatorRemoteNotifications directory into your project.
2. Add #import "UIApplication+SimulatorRemoteNotifications.h" to your application delegate.
3. Add [application listenForRemoteNotifications]; to application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

Optional: you can set the port by calling setRemoteNotificationsPort:

The default port number is 9930

To send a remote notification, send an udp packet to localhost:9930. You can do this from the terminal by using netcat:

echo -n '{"message":"message"}' | nc -4u -w1 localhost 9930

Example

You can look at SimulatorRemoteNotificationsExample.xcodeproj and run the example project.

Note

(Real) Apple remote notifications are limited to 256 bytes content length.