Urban Airship's libUAirship is a drop-in static library that provides a simple way to
integrate Urban Airship services into your iOS applications. If you just want to
include the library in your app, you can download libUAirship-latest.zip from
http://urbanairship.com/resources/developer-resources. This zip contains a pre-compiled
universal library for armv7/armv7s/arm64/i386/x86_64 (libUAirship-x.y.z.a).
Known issues with iOS 8.0.0 that may impact your application:
- Applications do not enter the 'active' state when started from an interactive notification and subsequent app sessions do not receive the application:didBecomeActive delegate call or UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification notification. The application state never transitions out of 'inactive' (Radar #18179525). This will impact the accuracy of reporting for applications using interactive notifications.
- Background refresh always appears to be enabled in an application even when disabled in settings and background push will not be delivered. Push registration will consider a device in this situation able to receive a background notification when it cannot. (Radar #18298439)
- Registering for UIUserNotificationTypeNone will prevent a re-registration until the device has been restarted and the settings are manually updated in Settings.app. There is a workaround for this issue in UA SDK 5.0.0. (Radar #17878212)
- Resolved in iOS 9 The boolean properties on UIUserNotificationAction are mutated in the UIUserNotificationCategory isEqual: method, so the authorizationRequired and destructive properties on an action may receive values from actions in other categories in the set registered with iOS. You may see notification actions with the wrong color or authorization required status (Radar #18385104).
- Urban Airship iOS Library Reference: http://docs.urbanairship.com/reference/libraries/ios/latest/
- Getting started guide: http://docs.urbanairship.com/build/ios.html
- Library Upgrade Guides: http://docs.urbanairship.com/topic_guides/ios_migration.html
Download and unzip the latest version of libUAirship. If you are using one of our sample
projects, copy the Airship directory into the same directory as your project::
cp -r Airship /SomeDirectory/ (where /SomeDirectory/YourProject/ is your project)
If you are not using a sample project, you'll need to import the source files for the User Interface into your project. These are located under /Airship/UI/Default
The core library requires your application to link against the following Frameworks (sample UIs have additional linking requirements)::
libUAirship-<current_version>.a
CFNetwork.framework
CoreGraphics.framework
Foundation.framework
MobileCoreServices.framework
Security.framework
SystemConfiguration.framework
UIKit.framework
libz.dylib
libsqlite3.dylib
CoreTelephony.framework
CoreLocation.framework
Compiler Xcode 6 is required for all projects and the static library. Projects must target >= iOS6.
Header search path
Ensure that your build target's header search path includes the Airship directory.
Before getting started you must perform the steps outlined above.
In addition you'll need to include UAirship.h and UAPush.h in your source files.
The library uses a .plist configuration file named AirshipConfig.plist to manage your production and development
application profiles. Example copies of this file are available in all of the sample projects. Place this file
in your project and set the following values to the ones in your application at http://go.urbanairship.com. To
view all the possible keys and values, visit http://docs.urbanairship.com/ios-lib/Classes/UAConfig.html
You can also edit the file as plain-text:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>inProduction</key>
<false/>
<key>developmentAppKey</key>
<string>Your Development App Key</string>
<key>developmentAppSecret</key>
<string>Your Development App Secret</string>
<key>productionAppKey</key>
<string>Your Production App Key</string>
<key>productionAppSecret</key>
<string>Your Production App Secret</string>
</dict>
</plist>If you are using development builds and testing using the Apple sandbox set inProduction to false. For
App Store and Ad-Hoc builds, set it to true. You may also allow the library to auto-detect the production
mode by setting detectProvisioningMode to true.
Advanced users may add scripting or preprocessing logic to this .plist file to automate the switch from development to production keys based on the build type.
To enable push notifications, you will need to make several additions to your application delegate.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Your other application code.....
// Set log level for debugging config loading (optional)
// It will be set to the value in the loaded config upon takeOff
[UAirship setLogLevel:UALogLevelTrace];
// Populate AirshipConfig.plist with your app's info from https://go.urbanairship.com
// or set runtime properties here.
UAConfig *config = [UAConfig defaultConfig];
// You can then programmatically override the plist values:
// config.developmentAppKey = @"YourKey";
// etc.
// Call takeOff (which creates the UAirship singleton)
[UAirship takeOff:config];
// Print out the application configuration for debugging (optional)
UA_LDEBUG(@"Config:\n%@", [config description]);
// Set the icon badge to zero on startup (optional)
[[UAirship push] resetBadge];
// Set the notification types required for the app (optional). This value defaults
// to badge, alert and sound, so it's only necessary to set it if you want
// to add or remove types.
[UAirship push].userNotificationTypes = (UIUserNotificationTypeAlert |
UIUserNotificationTypeBadge |
UIUserNotificationTypeSound);
// User notifications will not be enabled until userPushNotificationsEnabled is
// set YES on UAPush. Once enabled, the setting will be persisted and the user
// will be prompted to allow notifications. You should wait for a more appropriate
// time to enable push to increase the likelihood that the user will accept
// notifications.
// [UAirship push].userPushNotificationsEnabled = YES;
return YES;
}To enable push later on in your application:
// Somewhere in the app, this will enable push (setting it to NO will disable push,
// which will trigger the proper registration or de-registration code in the library).
[UAirship push].userPushNotificationsEnabled = YES;Logging can be configured through either the AirshipConfig.plist file or directly in code. The
default log level for production apps is UALogLevelError and the default for development apps
is UALogLevelDebug.
In AirshipConfig.plist, set LOG_LEVEL to one of the following integer values:
None = 0
Error = 1
Warn = 2
Info = 3
Debug = 4
Trace = 5To set the log level in code, call setLogLevel after takeOff:
[UAirship setLogLevel:UALogLevelWarn];The available log levels are:
UALogLevelNone
UALogLevelError
UALogLevelWarn
UALogLevelInfo
UALogLevelDebug
UALogLevelTraceSource can be found at https://github.com/urbanairship/ios-library
The unit tests in this project require OCMock. OCMock can be installed automatically with the use of our install script, scripts/mock_setup.sh.
To build full and push-only static libraries from the command line, run the distribution script:
./Deploy/distribute.sh
This will produce static libraries (.a files) in /Airship and create the samples and Airship library distribution zip file in Deploy/output
We accept pull requests! If you would like to submit a pull request, please fill out and submit a Code Contribution Agreement (http://urbanairship.com/legal/contribution-agreement/).
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