Is there any way to remove the swipe event that pulls in the notification center from the top of the ipad when developing an ipad app? If there is an easy way in PhoneGap, that would be best, if not - I can manually implement any Objective-C solution.
The app is already in full screen, and there are some gestures that including swiping at the top. These iPads are distributed to the sales force of this company, and they want that feature (top swipe notification center) disabled.
Cheers!
When your app is in fullscreen mode, Notification Center switches to a two-swipe system: swipe once to bring up a little handle, and swipe down on the handle to bring up Notification Center. This should avoid most interference.
Other than that, there's no public way to disable this gesture.
Of course not. At least not without a jailbroken phone. Notification Center is built into the OS and cannot be disabled by third party apps. As #jtbandes pointed out, their is the "handle" option, but there is no way to completely disable the functionality.
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In my app design, I have a dropdown menu from the top as the user swipes down the top edge of the screen. This interferes with the Push notification tray. Is there any way to disable the default tray dropdown when my app is in the foreground?
Currently, there is no public API for manipulating the behavior of the notification center or how to prevent it.
I think it is a design decision to keep a consistent user experience at the price of developer freedom. I do not think it's not likely that an app will ever be able to block a notification's appearance, and only slightly less unlikely that an app would be able to prevent the notification center from appearing.
After all, it is what made iOS so successful. The consistency between the operating system and apps in general.
Can a Mac app temporarily disable Notification Center, for example while it is doing a full-screen presentation? Apple says alerts are "automatically disabled while you’re presenting in Keynote. They also won’t appear if your display is mirrored on an external monitor." Do third-party apps also have the ability to temporary disable notifications?
I don't think so, but my assumptions are base on iOS, where you can't turn off notification center at all.
You can enable Focus (aka Do Not Disturb) which will hide current notifications and prevent new ones from popping up. See https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-a-focus-on-or-off-mchl999b7c1a/mac for how to enable/disable it.
I do not know if applications themselves have control over enabling/disabling Focus.
I use the Touch Bar and add the Focus button to quickly enable it if I need to present or share screen. I do not see a keyboard shortcut you can set in Monterrey like you could in Big Sur.
Essentially a Cydia application that shows an iOS5 notification center banner each time a song changes in the iPod app.
You can:
- Tap the banner to open iPod app
- Tap and hold a banner to show playing controls in the multitasking switcher.
- Swipe a banner to the right to play the next track.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ajPdXcJkjs
Is this done with a UILocalNotification at time now-1 or any other method?
How does it not show up in notification center?
How does it do those actions on the notification bar?
Note: I'm asking this to develop a JB app, so no interest in official API's only.
I am the dev of NowListening !
NowListening doesn't provide real notifications, it just provide a banner each time the song changes (with any app) ;)
So, to do this, you have to create an instance of BBBulletin and push it to SBBulletinBannerController.
To dump all these classes, use class-dump.
I'm developing a Kiosk-Mode Application and I want to prevent the notification center gesture (swipe down from top). Since the Application isn't distributed using the AppStore private APIs are allowed.
I have skimmed through the UIKit class dump but did not find any hints on how to disable it (resp. don't know where to look, tried UIApplication and UIWindow).
Has anyone tried this yet and had success?
It may be a little tricky, cause you are trying to disable native iOS function like all-fingers swipe gesture on iPad and so on. Some people use this method to define different notification center swipe side:
statusBarHidden = YES
and then you can redefine side:
setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft
as example.
I think you couldn't find any hacks to prevent iOS notification from showing at all. As last approach you can get some profit from dealing with jaiblroken features on unlocked devices...
If you have a full screen iOS app and you want to prevent the notification center from being pulled down, can you and how?
Also can you block notification alerts or banners from displaying while your app is loading? (I think this is a no way for sure but wanted to ask just in case.)
It has been my experience that fullscreen apps (statusBarHidden = YES) have a slightly different notification center behavior by default: Swiping down over the area previously occupied by the status bar will only show a little tab. Only swiping the tab will then show the notification center. This has been enough to prevent accidental activation for me so far.
Currently, there is no public API for manipulating the behavior of the notification center. I am of the opinion that it's not likely that an app will ever be able to block a notification's appearance, and only slightly less unlikely that an app would be able to prevent the notification center from appearing. iOS is all about a consistent user experience experience at the price of developer freedom. I could see being frustrated by this kind of functionality if I were an unexpecting user.
All that said, there is always the dark-side of undocumented APIs. I would not be surprised if you could pull off some cleverness using those on a jailbroken device, but that's not my cup-o'-tea.
I just now figured this out. I am developing a game that runs in landscape and whenever I touched the left side, the notification center tab would appear. To fix this, you want to add the following:
setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft
I added this right after I setStatusBarHidden and I no longer have the problem of the notification tab.
Hope that helps.
An API was introduced in iOS 11, alongside a change in behavior to how Notification Center (and Control Center) is presented, to allow you to specify the desired behavior.
UIViewController.preferredScreenEdgesDeferringSystemGestures
In iOS 11+, Notification Center will always pull down when swiping from the very top of the screen, even if the status bar is hidden. preferredScreenEdgesDeferringSystemGestures allows you to specify that swiping a screen edge should not trigger the standard system UI, and instead it will provide a pull-out tab that the user must swipe again to bring out the system UI.
This is intended to be used for games where users swipe frequently, where it would be undesired to bring in system UI instead of control the game. For an immersive app like that, you can return .all to specify you don't want any system UI to appear the first time you swipe any edges of the screen, and it should instead prefer your app's own gestures.
Note that this will disable the ability to swipe once from the bottom to close an app on iPhones and iPads that don't have home buttons - the user will have to swipe twice to close the app.
There is still no way to completely disable Notification Center from within your app, nor prevent notifications from appearing while your app is in the foreground.
I built a very simple code snippet to address this issue programatically. I have a timer set-up in my app delegate that runs every .2 seconds each time it runs it keeps moving the status bar orientation so it doesn't impact the game play. I haven't experienced the annoying notification center in my app since! The only issue is the volume control rotates constantly and might be annoying but it's less annoying than notification center
int tick=0;
-(void)toggleNC
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
tick++;
if (tick==1)
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft];
}
if (tick==2){
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight];
}
if (tick==3){
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
}
if (tick==4){
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown];
tick=0;
}
}