Getting quick updates with Alert Views
System wide notifications are an essential component of any modern mobile operating system, allowing for a quick way to present short text prompts to the end user.
Apple has built Alert Views into the iOS SDK, giving developers the same notification system used by Apple for system alerts such as text messages. We can use these several ways, either in application or outside of the application through Push Notifications or Local Notifications.
In this recipe, we'll break down different ways that we can present the notifications to our user through Alert Views.
Getting ready
Alert Views can be found in many applications on both iPhone and iPad devices. It's useful to have an application on hand like Alarm Clock, so that we can test out this view type.
It would also be useful to have Urban Airship's website on hand, which can be found at http://urbanairship.com. Urban Airship is a tool that allows for the easy implementation of notifications into our app...
