Swift: local notifications seem to be duplicated then some disappear

I have a reminders app that searches an array to send reminders to take medication. When the notifications show up, I get a sea of ​​multiple notifications that pop up and seem to disappear instantly and then 1 remains at the end.

My initial view controller is UITableViewController

. I tried to post the function fireNotifications

in viewDidLoad

but didn't seem to send any notifications. If I put a function call fireNotifications

in one of the tableView functions (i.e. numberOfSectionsInTableView

), I can get notifications, but they have the strange behavior that I mentioned above.

My code:

func fireNotifications() {
    if NSUserDefaults().boolForKey("NotifySwitch") {  //checks settings to make sure user wants reminders
        for (index, items) in myMedsList.enumerate() {
            let notification = UILocalNotification()
            notification.fireDate = NSDate(timeIntervalSinceNow: 20)
            notification.alertBody = "Reminder: Take your \(items.name) now!"
            notification.alertAction = "Let take my meds!"
            notification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName
            notification.userInfo = ["Med Index": index]
            UIApplication.sharedApplication().scheduleLocalNotification(notification)
        }
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Am I wrong when I have a function call? Or is there something wrong in the code? Note that I just have firedate for as long as 20 seconds to test, but plan to set fireDate for each element in the myMedsList array.