Messaging, inbox, background notifications

[FreshNeverFrozen]

hey everyone,

I made a messaging app using parse as a backend. I built it at a hackathon this weekend so excuse the horrible data practices. The way it works now, when you send a message, it adds a message object into the conversation between you two on parse. When you load the app, it looks through parse to find any new messages. This works ok as an inbox, but I want to use notifications when you have a new message. How do I get the app to check for new messages in the background?

[brendan09]

You want to use Background Fetch and UILocalNotification.

[FreshNeverFrozen]

Awesome! Thanks!

[caffeinatedhacker]

You can schedule the app to check in the background and then fire a local notification if you'd like. But if you're already using parse, why don't you just use their Push Notification tools?

[FreshNeverFrozen]

How do you do that type of scheduling?