My Mac app has a launch agent (within the app bundle) that works great without the app running. There are some occasions where I need to display an alert and ask the user to launch the app to handle the issue. I thought about using UNUserNotificationCenter but I'm not able to make it work from the agent.
I'm asking for authorization as follows:
[center requestAuthorizationWithOptions:(UNAuthorizationOptionAlert | UNAuthorizationOptionSound | UNAuthorizationOptionBadge)
completionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError * _Nullable error) {
NSLog(@"authorization request completion. Granted: %@, error: %@ (%@)",granted?@"YES":@"NO",error, [error localizedDescription]);
}];
And I'm trying to post the notification as follows:
content.title = @"Your App Name";
content.body = @"Click the button to open the app";
content.sound = [UNNotificationSound defaultSound];
UNNotificationRequest *request = [UNNotificationRequest requestWithIdentifier:[[NSUUID UUID] UUIDString]
content:content
trigger:nil];
[center addNotificationRequest:request withCompletionHandler:^(NSError * _Nullable error) {
if (error) {
NSLog(@"Error showing notification: %@ %@", error, [error localizedDescription]);
}
}];
When running I'm getting asked to authorize, I authorize and all seems OK in system settings but I'm not able send any notifications. addNotificationRequest results in UNErrorCodeNotificationsNotAllowed error.
I tried this with the authorization request inside the main app, or inside the agent, with the same results.
When trying to post the notification from within the app, it does work, but that's not what I need.
Is posting notifications from within the launch agent not possible at all, or is there anything here that I'm missing.
TIA
