I noticed that the recent update to the Android lib fixed some issues that I’d noticed before, such as title text now showing which is great.
Just wondered if there was any chance of implementing stacked notifications:
https://d26wz3l5q5ywv2.cloudfront.net/CeYoVZL7Maxhj0Z1VwVs5A
It would be much nicer to bundle them in together, rather than having 5 separate push messages clogging up the notification panel.
Or perhaps you’ve already done it, and I’m just missing something?
Thanks!
Oh also…
I noticed that I can get a secondary icon to appear - like the ones shown here:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/YX2l8.png
They don’t appear by default, they only appear if I specify a large icon manually in the dashboard (it’s as if the large icon being sent pushes the existing icon into the small icon section).
Is there a way to get Gamethrive to automatically use a small icon if nothing is specified in the console? I’m using Enterprise so at the moment my main icon is set by
android/res/drawable-hdpi/corona_statusbar_icon_default.png
android/res/drawable-xhdpi/corona_statusbar_icon_default.png
etc
Is there a way I can add a second icon in there which matches the expected sizes such as:
android/res/drawable-hdpi/small_icon.png
Again, perhaps we’ve overlooked something in the docs, but I couldn’t see any way to have the small icon showing by default.
Hello Alan,
We do not stack Android notifications yet but it is something we will add down the line. It won’t be a default behavior as we would have to make too many assumptions about combining notifications but we can give some different options to change behaviors. I have thought of adding a group option so that groups with the same id would stack together and the count would auto go up on the notification it self on the device. The group id would have an option to define a title and the compact view would auto populate with the title of the previous notifications. Does a behavior like this fit what you need for your app? We don’t have an eta for this feature and what I have noted above may change as we start to implement the stacking.
If the small icon in the bottom right is going to be the same as the large one to the left I don’t see a reason to show it. In the Android notification guide lines they refer to the small icon as the secondary icon and it is designed so the user knows which app the notification is from. However we can add a feature to our SDK to look for a large_notification_icon file since I see cases where you want the large icon to be different than the app icon. Until then you can create a template in GameThrive with a large icon set to save you time when sending new notifications.
Thanks.
Oh also…
I noticed that I can get a secondary icon to appear - like the ones shown here:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/YX2l8.png
They don’t appear by default, they only appear if I specify a large icon manually in the dashboard (it’s as if the large icon being sent pushes the existing icon into the small icon section).
Is there a way to get Gamethrive to automatically use a small icon if nothing is specified in the console? I’m using Enterprise so at the moment my main icon is set by
android/res/drawable-hdpi/corona_statusbar_icon_default.png
android/res/drawable-xhdpi/corona_statusbar_icon_default.png
etc
Is there a way I can add a second icon in there which matches the expected sizes such as:
android/res/drawable-hdpi/small_icon.png
Again, perhaps we’ve overlooked something in the docs, but I couldn’t see any way to have the small icon showing by default.
Hello Alan,
We do not stack Android notifications yet but it is something we will add down the line. It won’t be a default behavior as we would have to make too many assumptions about combining notifications but we can give some different options to change behaviors. I have thought of adding a group option so that groups with the same id would stack together and the count would auto go up on the notification it self on the device. The group id would have an option to define a title and the compact view would auto populate with the title of the previous notifications. Does a behavior like this fit what you need for your app? We don’t have an eta for this feature and what I have noted above may change as we start to implement the stacking.
If the small icon in the bottom right is going to be the same as the large one to the left I don’t see a reason to show it. In the Android notification guide lines they refer to the small icon as the secondary icon and it is designed so the user knows which app the notification is from. However we can add a feature to our SDK to look for a large_notification_icon file since I see cases where you want the large icon to be different than the app icon. Until then you can create a template in GameThrive with a large icon set to save you time when sending new notifications.
Thanks.
