Notification Channel / Category in Android 8.0

Solar2D Android
#1

Hi guys,

This new feature in Android 8.0 (API level 26) where notification can be handled as channels (aka category). Currently, in the app, the ‘category’ is corona (see attached screen shot).

I have tried sending a notification message (using FCM) with the ‘android_channel_id’ field, but it does not show. I think the push notification plugins needs to be updated or maybe the app needs to create the category first (as per FCM’s document).

The app must create a channel with this channel ID before any notification with this channel ID is received. If you don't send this channel ID in the request, or if the channel ID provided has not yet been created by the app, FCM uses the channel ID specified in the app manifest.

// Sample post-data to FCM $postData = ['registration\_ids' =\> $listOfFcmIds, 'data' =\> [ 'alert'=\> 'Notification Message', 'custom' =\> $myData,] ];

Reference documents :

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications#ManageChannels

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/http-server-ref

Any advice on how to create the channels/category in the app using Corona ?

Thanks

#2

I’m checking with Engineering about this.

#3

This field is optional, please skip it.

For local notifications Corona uses channel with id “com.coronalabs.defaultChannel” and tag “corona”, created when first local notification is posted.

If you want to mass-send notifications consider using topics subscriptions with notifications.subscribe/unsubscribe functions.

#4

I’m checking with Engineering about this.

#5

This field is optional, please skip it.

For local notifications Corona uses channel with id “com.coronalabs.defaultChannel” and tag “corona”, created when first local notification is posted.

If you want to mass-send notifications consider using topics subscriptions with notifications.subscribe/unsubscribe functions.