How to hide the close button and close action in alert view to display only "Open app" button

Question

I have implemented UIlocalNotification method using the link

Adding Local Notifications With iOS 4

in my app my requirement is that

in notification alert we need to have only "Show me" button which opens the app by default,

we need to force the user to open the app when notification , So there must no close button in the notification alert.

only one button that too Show me must opent the app

how?

Even if this were possible, I doubt this would get accepted on the App Store. An unignorable notification that forced the user into an app? It would get rejected from my phone pretty quickly too. — jrturton, Mar 12 '13 at 07:21

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 04 '13 at 07:26

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If you do not want to show the alert action button you can disable it by setting the hasAction property to NO.
Note that without the action button there is no option for the user to launch the application from the alert.
(If you do not want to see the alert at all you should set alertBody to nil.)

EDIT:

You can not remove cancel button.
You have only option to remove action button not cancel button and As it is defined in implementation file of UILocalNotification so u can not override it.

edited Oct 04 '13 at 07:26

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It's possible to disable only the action button, not the cancel button. Your extract talks about the action button – LombaX Mar 12 '13 at 07:17
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that's why i had added that link. I have edited my answer now. You can not remove cancel button. – Baby Groot Mar 12 '13 at 07:21
How can I add some action on button "View". When I get local notification and presses the button "View" it opens the app and that is fine but what should I do if I want to perform some action on the button "View"? Please help me... – Manthan Apr 22 '13 at 13:04
@ManthanPatel For that you need to add these methods in your app delegate. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16140055/not-receiving-any-push-notification-in-iphone/16140565#16140565 – Baby Groot Apr 22 '13 at 15:10
I haven't been able to make `hasAction = NO` work neither in iOS 5, not iOS 6, nor iOS 7. The button is always shown. Has the behaviour been changed? – entonio Aug 08 '14 at 12:22

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 04 '13 at 07:59

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You can't remove the cancel button.

Few more things are there:

If the phone is locked means the user can't see any buttons(a swipe button appears to perform ur showme function).
If the user changed the settings for notification to other than alert type, the user can't even see the UIAlertView.

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '13 at 07:10

Make sure your view conforms to UIAlertViewDelegate protocol:

@interface YourViewController : UIViewController <UIAlertViewDelegate>

When you want the alert to show, do this:

 UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Alert" message:@"Message" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Show me" otherButtonTitles:nil];

If you want to do something when the button is clicked, implement this

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex;{
// the user clicked OK
if (buttonIndex == 0)
{
    //do something here...
}
}

He is talking about local notification, not UIAlertView – LombaX Mar 12 '13 at 07:16 — LombaX, Mar 12 '13 at 07:16

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