Making iOS wake my app up on a specific time

Question

I'm trying to create a little reminder-app for my special needs ;-) Is there a way to tell iOS to wake my app up from the background at a specific time/in regular intervals?

The app would then decide to turn on the screen or play a sound, if required.

So far I can't figure out how to do this. All I can find on iOS 7 multitasking is about playing music, downloading data etc. Nothing time based...

Answer 1

As far as I know, it is not possible.

The closest you can get to that is by sending either a local or a push notification.

Answer 2

Take a look at local notifications: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Introduction.html

The main class is UILocalNotification, documented at https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone/Reference/UILocalNotification_Class/Reference/Reference.html