Get push notification while App in foreground iOS

Question

For displaying banner message while app is in foreground, use the following method.

iOS 10, Swift 3/4 :

// This method will be called when app received push notifications in foreground
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) 
{
    completionHandler([.alert, .badge, .sound])
}

iOS 10, Swift 2.3 :

@available(iOS 10.0, *)
func userNotificationCenter(center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresentNotification notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void)
{
    //Handle the notification
    completionHandler(
       [UNNotificationPresentationOptions.Alert,
        UNNotificationPresentationOptions.Sound,
        UNNotificationPresentationOptions.Badge])
}

You must also register your app delegate as the delegate for the notifications center:

import UserNotifications

// snip!

class AppDelegate : UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate

// snip!

   func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

      // set the delegate in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
      UNUserNotificationCenter.current().delegate = self
      ...
   }

Below code will be work for you :

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo  {
    application.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;             
    //self.textView.text = [userInfo description];
    // We can determine whether an application is launched as a result of the user tapping the action
    // button or whether the notification was delivered to the already-running application by examining
    // the application state.

    if (application.applicationState == UIApplicationStateActive) {                
        // Nothing to do if applicationState is Inactive, the iOS already displayed an alert view.                
        UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Did receive a Remote Notification" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Your App name received this notification while it was running:\n%@",[[userInfo objectForKey:@"aps"] objectForKey:@"alert"]]delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alertView show];          
    }    
}

Objective C

For iOS 10 we need integrate willPresentNotification method for show notification banner in foreground.

If app in foreground mode(active)

- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter* )center willPresentNotification:(UNNotification* )notification withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions options))completionHandler {
    NSLog( @"Here handle push notification in foreground" ); 
    //For notification Banner - when app in foreground
    
    completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionAlert);
    
    // Print Notification info
    NSLog(@"Userinfo %@",notification.request.content.userInfo);
}

For anyone might be interested, I ended up creating a custom view that looks like the system push banner on the top but adds a close button (small blue X) and an option to tap the message for custom action. It also supports the case of more than one notification arrived before the user had time to read/dismiss the old ones (With no limit to how many can pile up...)

Link to GitHub: AGPushNote

The usage is basically on-liner:

[AGPushNoteView showWithNotificationMessage:@"John Doe sent you a message!"];

And it looks like this on iOS7 (iOS6 have an iOS6 look and feel...)

If the application is running in the foreground, iOS won't show a notification banner/alert. That's by design. But we can achieve it by using UILocalNotification as follows

• Check whether application is in active state on receiving a remote
  notification. If in active state fire a UILocalNotification.

  if (application.applicationState == UIApplicationStateActive ) {
  
      UILocalNotification *localNotification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
      localNotification.userInfo = userInfo;
      localNotification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
      localNotification.alertBody = message;
      localNotification.fireDate = [NSDate date];
      [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:localNotification];
  }
  

SWIFT:

if application.applicationState == .active {
    var localNotification = UILocalNotification()
    localNotification.userInfo = userInfo
    localNotification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName
    localNotification.alertBody = message
    localNotification.fireDate = Date()
    UIApplication.shared.scheduleLocalNotification(localNotification)
}

Xcode 10 Swift 4.2

To show Push Notification when your app is in the foreground -

Step 1 : add delegate UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate in AppDelegate class.

class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate {

Step 2 : Set the UNUserNotificationCenter delegate

let notificationCenter = UNUserNotificationCenter.current()
notificationCenter.delegate = self

Step 3 : This step will allow your app to show Push Notification even when your app is in foreground

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
                                willPresent notification: UNNotification,
                                withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
        completionHandler([.alert, .sound])

    }

Step 4 : This step is optional. Check if your app is in the foreground and if it is in foreground then show Local PushNotification.

func application(_ application: UIApplication,didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [AnyHashable: Any],fetchCompletionHandler completionHandler:@escaping (UIBackgroundFetchResult) -> Void) {

        let state : UIApplicationState = application.applicationState
        if (state == .inactive || state == .background) {
            // go to screen relevant to Notification content
            print("background")
        } else {
            // App is in UIApplicationStateActive (running in foreground)
            print("foreground")
            showLocalNotification()
        }
    }

Local Notification function -

fileprivate func showLocalNotification() {

        //creating the notification content
        let content = UNMutableNotificationContent()

        //adding title, subtitle, body and badge
        content.title = "App Update"
        //content.subtitle = "local notification"
        content.body = "New version of app update is available."
        //content.badge = 1
        content.sound = UNNotificationSound.default()

        //getting the notification trigger
        //it will be called after 5 seconds
        let trigger = UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger(timeInterval: 1, repeats: false)

        //getting the notification request
        let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: "SimplifiedIOSNotification", content: content, trigger: trigger)

        //adding the notification to notification center
        notificationCenter.add(request, withCompletionHandler: nil)
    }