Mute Push Notifications
Magnet Message provides an easy way for developers to mute and unmute push notifications on a user's subscribed channels. When a channel is muted, an offline user will not receive push notifications as they normally would. This can be really useful when designing an app with a great user experience in mind. For example, perhaps a user may not want to receive notifications while they are at work, or while they are sleeping. With Magnet Message you can add time-based mute and unmute functionality to your app on a per channel basis.
Mute Channel
To mute a channel simply call the muteUntil method on the target channel.
[channel muteUntil:nil success:^{
//this channel is now muted!
} failure:^(NSError *error) {
//NSLog(@"%@", error.localizedDescription)
}];
Set Mute Duration
Additionally a date can be specified to mute a channel for a specific duration. If no date is specified the channel will be muted in perpetuity.
NSDate *tomorrow = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] dateByAddingUnit:NSCalendarUnitDay
value:1 toDate:[NSDate date]
options:NSCalendarMatchNextTime];
[channel muteUntil:tomorrow success:^{
//this channel is now muted until tomorrow!
} failure:^(NSError *error) {
//NSLog(@"%@", error.localizedDescription)
}];
Unmute Channel
Similarly, to unmute a channel simply call unmute on the target channel.
[channel unMuteWithSuccess:^{
//this channel is now unmuted!
} failure:^(NSError *error) {
//NSLog(@"%@", error.localizedDescription)
}];
Channel Mute Status
Each instance of MMXChannel contains attributes to identify a channel's "mute" status.
if (channel.isMuted) {
//this channel is muted
} else {
//this channel is not muted
}
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterLongStyle;
formatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle;
NSString *dateString = [formatter stringFromDate:channel.mutedUntil];
NSLog(@"muted until %@", dateString);
Next Steps
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