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Ios swift – Schedule local notifications on only weekdays and between 8am to 5pm in Swift

I’m trying to schedule local notifications on only weekdays, between the 8am to 5pm.
Need to trigger a local notification on given time interval.

func scheduleNotifications(timeInterval: Int) {
    let notificationCenter = UNUserNotificationCenter.current()
    notificationCenter.removeAllDeliveredNotifications()
    notificationCenter.removeAllPendingNotificationRequests()

    let startHour = 8
    let totalHours = 9
    let totalHalfHours = totalHours * (60/timeInterval)

    for i in 1...totalHalfHours {
        var date = DateComponents()
        date.hour = startHour + i / 2
        date.minute = timeInterval * (i % 2)
        print("(date.hour!):(date.minute!)")

        let notification = UNMutableNotificationContent()
        notification.title = "App"
        notification.body = "Notification message"
        notification.categoryIdentifier = "reminder"
        notification.sound  = .default

        let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: date, repeats: true)
        let uuidString = UUID().uuidString
        let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: uuidString, content: notification, trigger: trigger)
        notificationCenter.add(request, withCompletionHandler: nil)
    }
}

self?.scheduleNotifications(timeInterval: 30)

Using the above code, i’m able to schedule the notification on every 30 minutes. But, I face challenge in restrict this notifications only for the weekdays.

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  1. 0

    When you create your DateComponents it will be for the current day as you know so you could just check if today is a weekend day somewhere before that

    if Calendar.current.isDateInWeekend(.now) {
    return
}

    I would do it as the first thing in the function

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  2. 0

    One solution would be to add an inner (or outer) loop from 2...6 (Monday to Friday) and use that to set the weekday property of date. This means you create 5 times as many notifications but it narrows each set to one day per week.

    Note that once you call scheduleNotifications once, never call it again in the lifetime of the app being installed without first deleting all existing scheduled notifications. This is because each notification you are creating is not limited to any specific date. So if you call scheduleNotifications more than once without purging existing notifications, you now have two or more notifications schedule for each time slot.

    But now you have a bigger problem. I’ve seen a few references state that you can only schedule 64 notifications. But you need 18 per day, 5 days per week. That’s 90. That’s too many. You are going to need a different approach to avoid the limit.

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