Creating React Native badge components in iOS
Blog post from LogRocket
Badges in mobile applications serve as effective tools for alerting users about important updates, enhancing user experience, and driving engagement by displaying notification counts or reminders. This tutorial explores the integration of notification badges into a React Native project using Notifee, a library that supports local notifications for both Android and iOS. It provides a step-by-step guide on managing badges, including setting and clearing badge counts, enabling remote push notifications, and utilizing the UNNotificationServiceExtension for iOS. The guide also delves into the setup of necessary development environments and tools, such as Node.js, Xcode, and CocoaPods, while highlighting the importance of user permissions and notification channels for different operating systems. By following these instructions, developers can effectively implement dynamic badge notification systems to enhance app interactivity and user retention.