Megaphone

Megaphone provides a simple way to inform your current customers about app launches and updates inside your own application. Notifications are currently consist of all text and are presented as a UIAlertView.

Installation

###Server Side

Place a id.json file and notification.json on your webserver in the same folder.

The id.json file should contain: [id] id is an integer identifier for your notification that you will keep increasing with each succesive message.

The notification.json file should contain { "title":"", "body":"", "link":"", "buttonTitle":"", "cancelTitle":"", } title - title of the message body - body text of the message link - Link which user is sent to when they click the non-cancel button buttonTitle - The text of the button which sends users to the link cancelTitle - The text of the cancel button

###Client Side

1. Download Source Code
2. Compile the project
3. In build/iphoneos-release/ find the megaphone folder and add it to your project
4. Add -ObjC and -all_load as linker flags for compilation
5. Allocate and initialize a MPNotification object when you want an message to be fetched - (void) viewWillAppear { MPNotification *aNotification = [[MPNotification alloc] initWithAddress:@"http://www.bloqsoftware.com"]; }
6. Call showNotification on the MPNotification object whenever you want an alert to be shown if available - (void)viewDidAppear { [aNotification showNotification]; }

Credit

This project uses a copy of the excellent JSON library from http://code.google.com/p/json-framework/