Local Notification Reminders

[incyi]

Push reminders

• 1 time a day to completely fill in.
• 1 time a week to finish the week.
• 1 time a month to show 'stats' of last month, maybe to reminder for praying the missed prayers.

[z3bi]

We don't need to do "push notifications" but using local notifications to send reminders is a good idea. We can probably start with a daily one (with the option to choose the time) and see how that goes.

[Mazyod]

At a higher level, to have such features, we would need a simple notification scheduling service that would wrap the nitty gritty details of local notification scheduling and provide a simple API for the rest of the app. I would like to go over the thought process here, and then include the TL;DR version in the wiki.

Notification Variables

The notification options vary based on:

• Date: The fire date is of course customizable by the user.
• Frequency: This can be tweaked by passing a CalendarUnit. We will assume the device calendar as the user's preference.
• Intent: The intention of the reminder changes, which implies a message variable, and possibly an ID in the user info which can be extracted and used for deep-linking.
• Selection: Users can choose to turn all/some/none of them on. For the MVP at least, we will simply cancel all notifications and reschedule every time.