On WatchOS, there is a notification that seems to go off about ten minutes until the hour that reminds you to stand up and move around some. I know we can schedule local notifications, but when the notification is triggered how is Apple checking if they actually need to present the notification or not? For example, if I have stood in the past hour and moved around, there's no need to show me the notification at 10 minutes until the hour.
My app runs on iOS. Reaching a goal is dependent on a user's last known action and the time elapsed since that last action. Currently, the user can launch my app and logic will be run to let them know their progress in reaching their goal. What I would like is the ability to run this logic in the background while the app is backgrounded (or even if it is killed). The end result for the user would be their iPhone is in their pocket and my app notifies them when the goal has been reached.
There is not a server component to my app. I am aware of things like region monitoring, monitoring significant location updates, and background reetch requests to a server that wake the app to perform actions, but to use them for my purpose seems kind of a hack (and potentially unnecessarily draining on the battery).
Am I missing an easy way to do this? or should I file a radar feature request? Suggestions?
Thanks for any help or feedback.
Dan
