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.