NewsWatch

NewsWatch is an example iOS application that uses Bluemix Push Notification service, Openwhisk, Cloudant and Watson Text to Speech service.

NewsWatch will will send give you latest news based on your preference. Once you subscribe for your interested topic , you will rceive a push notification every hour with the latest news. If you don't want to miss out the latest news you can enable the Play Push Notification option in the app to readout the news.

Requirements

• iOS 10.+
• Xcode 8.+

Create Following Bluemix services

Go to https://console.ng.bluemix.net and Log in. Click on [Catalog](https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/) on the top bar. On the left pane click on `Boiler Plates` below Apps.

1. Create [MobileFirst service starter] app. This will have Push notification service.

   

2. Click on Catalog on the top bar. On the left pane click on Watson below Services.Create a Watson Text to speech service.

   

Create APNS Certificate

For getting push notifications APNs certificate is mandatory. Create a Development profile and Development provisioning profile in your Apple developer account after that follow the below steps,

1. Open the Certificates, IDs & profiles section

   

2. Go to the App IDs section and create a bundle identifier and enable push notifications

   

3. Go to the Edit section and add Development SSL Certificate under Push notification section

   

4. Download the certificate and double click on it, certificate will get added to the Keyachain

   

5. Right click on the certificate and select export option. Save it as a p12 with valid password.

   

Set Up iOS app

Point the terminal to NewsSeconds folder and do pod install. This will add Cocoapod dependencies to the app.

Follow the below steps,

1. Open the NewsSeconds.xcworkspace in Xcode (make sure you are using Xcode 8+)
2. Go to General and Uncheck the auto signing

3. Add you bundle Identifier that you created here

4. Go to the Build settings -> Signing section. Add your provisioning profile, Code signing Identity and Development team.

5. Open the Capabilities and add Push notifications, backgound Modes

6. Open the AppDelegate.swift file and add values for the following ,

8. Build the project.

Create openWhisk action

Go to OpenWhisk Web editor .

1. Create an openWhisk action named GetLatestNewsAPI and add the code from openWhisk/GetLatestNewsAPI.swift

   

2. Create another openWhisk action with the code openWhisk/SwiftAction.swift add values for the following .

   

3. create a alarm based trigger for the above action (step 2)

   

Config Push Service

Open your Bluemix push service and configure for iOS Create the following tags in push service

 {
   {
    "name": "reddit-r-all",
    "description": "Reddit"
    },
  {
    "name": "cnn",
    "description": "CNN general news tag"
    },
  {
    "name": "bloomberg",
    "description": "Bloomberg business tags news"
  },
  {
    "name": "business-insider-uk",
    "description": "Business Insider business"
  },
  {
    "name": "bbc-sport",
    "description": "BBC Sport news tag"
  },
  {
    "name": "financial-times",
    "description": "Financial Times business"
  },
  {
    "name": "t3n",
    "description": "T3n technology"
  },
  {
    "name": "google-news",
    "description": "Google News general"
  },
  {
    "name": "the-wall-street-journal",
    "description": "The Wall Street Journal"
  },
  {
    "name": "buzzfeed",
    "description": "Buzzfeed entertainment"
  },
  {
    "name": "abc-news-au",
    "description": "ABC News (AU) news tag"
  },
  {
    "name": "time",
    "description": "Time general"
  },
  {
    "name": "usa-today",
    "description": "USA Today general"
  }
 }

Run iOS application.

Run the iOS application . Go to settings page and enable Push notifications, Play push notifications. Select your favorite news channel from the dropdown.

Thats it folks !!!..

License

Copyright 2016 IBM Corp.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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