Deliver an OSX notification with Swift

notification.swift

func showNotification() -> Void {
    var notification = NSUserNotification()
    notification.title = "Test from Swift"
    notification.informativeText = "The body of this Swift notification"
    notification.soundName = NSUserNotificationDefaultSoundName
    NSUserNotificationCenter.defaultUserNotificationCenter().deliverNotification(notification)
}

//showNotification()

Note the new API for swift > 3, updated in my fork:

NSUserNotificationCenter.default.deliver(notification)

We also need to conform our class to NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate.

Check the detailed tutorial here for swift 3.0.1: https://nabtron.com/show-notification-cocoa-xcode-swift/

Hey @nabtron, could you please explain why we have to conform the class to NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate? For me it work’s also without.

@ixeau same here. Maybe The picture part?

@ixeau Without NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate your notification will be shown only into the Notification center. If you want to have the popup and probably interact with your Notification you need NSUserNotificationCenterDelegate.
Example:

func showNotification() -> Void {
            let notification = NSUserNotification()
            notification.title = "Test."
            notification.subtitle = "Sub Test."
            notification.soundName = NSUserNotificationDefaultSoundName
            NSUserNotificationCenter.default.delegate = self
            NSUserNotificationCenter.default.deliver(notification)
}

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: NSUserNotificationCenter,
                                         shouldPresent notification: NSUserNotification) -> Bool {
        return true
}

This will show the top-right popup.

Thanks @Valerio69 that worked for me, I was missing NSUserNotificationCenter.default.delegate = self

Thanks @Valerio69. Thank you so much, I could have an app that pops up notification upper-right of the screen.

https://gist.github.com/code4you2021/cf184702b298181238aeb3fd781db203

UNUserNotificationCenter | Apple Developer Documentation
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unusernotificationcenter

Availability
iOS 10.0+
iPadOS 10.0+
macOS 10.14+
Mac Catalyst 13.0+
tvOS 10.0+
watchOS 3.0+