In-app announcement of new/related apps? [closed]

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Is there an open source library for announcing new apps via an in-app alert within another app?

iVersion is close to what I am talking about, but not quite, from what I see of it.

Example: * App-A is purchased by person; in this app I would like to embed a function to alert the person when a new related app is published * Sometime later, App-B is published - would like the users of App-A to be notified, because the apps are related

And of course, if someone wants to cancel or ignore these alerts, they should disappear and not return on future launches of the app.

Answer 1

Sounds like a classic case for push notifications. Can't see any advantage to necessarily linking these alerts to application launches or updates - you can just manually send a push notification to all users of app A when app B comes out (unless you launch new applications by the hour).

Answer 2

As you said, iVersion isn't intended for this, but my other library iNotify is:

https://github.com/nicklockwood/iNotify

iNotify polls a remote plist file for messages and then displays them on app launch. It has more-or-less the same interface as iVersion and has buttons to dismiss, remind, etc.