Published on April 23, 2022

Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using Objective-C

Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using Objective-C

When developing software, there is a need for a way to track important events and be notified when something happens. LogSnag provides an easy way to track important events and be notified in real-time on your Desktop, Phone, and SmartWatch.

Our API makes it very easy for anyone to integrate LogSnag into their Objective-C code. You can simply send an HTTP request to our API with any additional information you like, and we will take care of the rest.

Setting up LogSnag with Objective-C is as easy as using our code snippets with no custom modules required.

Set up your LogSnag account

  1. Head to LogSnag.com and create your free account.
  2. Create a new project from your dashboard.
  3. Copy your API token from the API settings.

Log your events via Objective-C

  1. Copy one of the following code snippets into your text editor
  2. Replace your API token, project name, and channel name.
  3. Run your Objective-C code!

Objective-C snippets for LogSnag

Send notifications using Objective-C and NSURLSession
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

dispatch_semaphore_t sema = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log"]
cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
timeoutInterval:10.0];
NSDictionary *headers = @{
@"Content-Type": @"application/json",
@"Authorization": @"Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
};

[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];
NSData *postData = [[NSData alloc] initWithData:[@"{\"project\":\"my-saas\",\"channel\":\"waitlist\",\"event\":\"Waitlist Member\",\"description\":\"email: john@example.com\",\"icon\":\"🔥\",\"notify\":true}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];

[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
if (error) {
NSLog(@"%@", error);
dispatch_semaphore_signal(sema);
} else {
NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
NSError *parseError = nil;
NSDictionary *responseDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:&parseError];
NSLog(@"%@",responseDictionary);
dispatch_semaphore_signal(sema);
}
}];
[dataTask resume];
dispatch_semaphore_wait(sema, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);

Conclusion

Once an event is published, you get instant updates in real-time, and you could optionally turn on or off push notifications depending on the priority of your event.

Also, LogSnag makes it very easy to organize your events into different projects and channels depending on their topic and provides you with a global and project-wide feed so you can scroll through your events.

In addition, with our collaborative features, you can add team members to a project so that everyone can receive push notifications and updates, regardless of the desktop or mobile platform they are using.

You can learn more about our API by heading to docs.logsnag.com

Other use-cases for LogSnag

  1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your Objective-C application
  2. Monitor your CPU usage in your Objective-C application
  3. Monitor when database goes down in your Objective-C application
  4. Monitor high disk usage in your Objective-C application
  5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your Objective-C application
  6. Monitor failed logins in your Objective-C application
  7. Monitor failed payments for your Objective-C application
  8. Monitor memory usage in your Objective-C application
  9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your Objective-C application
  10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your Objective-C application
  11. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your Objective-C application
  12. Monitor Redis downtime in your Objective-C application
  13. Monitor suspicious activity in your Objective-C application
  14. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your Objective-C service
  15. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your Objective-C application
  16. Get a notification when your Objective-C code is done executing
  17. Track canceled subscriptions in your Objective-C application
  18. Track your Objective-C cron jobs
  19. Track when a file is uploaded to your Objective-C application
  20. Track when a form is submitted to your Objective-C application
  21. Track payment events via Objective-C
  22. Track user sign in events in Objective-C
  23. Track user signup events via Objective-C
  24. Track waitlist signup events via Objective-C
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