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Operating system
  
iOS 4.0

License
  
BSD

Type
  
Notification system

MobileNotifier

Developer(s)
  
Peter Hajas (Lead Developer), Tim Novinger (Developer), Dustin Howett (Co-License Holder), Kyle Adams (UI Designer)

Stable release
  
beta5 (Ecstatic Eggo) / 29 May 2011

Written in
  
Objective-C, Objective-C++, C

MobileNotifier was a free open-source alert messaging system, written by Peter Hajas, for jailbroken iOS devices including iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, for iOS 4.0. Mobile Notifier was written as a reproduction of Android notifications. It is currently released under the BSD License. The lead developer, Peter Hajas, left to work for Apple but the project was continued by other developers.

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The software hooks into the operating system to replace the built-in modal notification user interface, and maintains a queue of unread messages for the user.

As of late May 2011, MobileNotifier has had over 230,000 downloads.

MobileNotifier was developed in conjunction with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Release History

MobileNotifier is in beta.

beta5 (Ecstatic Eggo)

Released 29 May 2011.

This included the following new features:

  • MobileReply – reply to SMS messages without entering the Messages application
  • Full message text preview for notifications
  • New AlertDashboard style, modeled after the lockscreen view
  • The ability to dismiss an alert entirely from the popup
  • Recall the most recent alert with an Activator action
  • Calendar Invitation alert support
  • Speed Improvements

    • It solved the following issues:

  • Lockscreen still displaying even if it was set to "off" in settings
  • Other small bugfixes

    • beta4 (Decadent Dinobites)

    Released 4 May 2011.

    This included the following new features:

  • New alert display in the statusbar
  • Alert preview on the lockscreen
  • Auto-dismiss of alerts after starting the relevant application

    • It solved the following issues:

  • Speed improvements

    • beta3 (Copious Corn Flakes)

    Released 27 February 2011.

    This included the following new features:

  • New alert style
  • A new AlertDashboard style in the multitasking switcher
  • A lockscreen view showing the number of pending notifications
  • Timestamp recording for alerts

    • It solved the following issues:

  • 3.x compatibility issues
  • Alert display issues

    • beta2 (Bountiful Bran Flakes)

    Released 18 February 2011

    This included the following new features:

  • A "heads up" view of all your alerts – the AlertDashboard
  • Push notification support (in beta2r4)

    • It solved the following issues:

  • Alerts no longer stack, and are instead presented one at a time

    • beta1 (Awesome Apple Jacks)

    MobileNotifier beta1 was not officially released.

    It solved the following issues:

  • General stability
  • Alert stack management

    • References

    MobileNotifier Wikipedia
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