Local Notifications in Android - The Full Guide (Android Studio Tutorial)

With notifications, you can show an information to the user when your app is not active and encourage them to do some action like opening your app. In this video you'll learn how you can show such notifications in Android.
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[@frukoyurdakul]

Good video for a tutorial! I would like to mention something that I've experienced about 2 weeks ago while dealing with foreground services, which also requires notifications so I thought this would be a nice place to mention. As of 2022-08-03, starting from API 33 (Android 13 Tiramisu), you will need to ask a runtime permission for notifications which the user will be able to deny. If that happens, you won't be able to post notifications. That includes creating notification channels as well. I had a habit of creating the channel right before posting the necessary notification before. But on API 33, the system prevents the app from creating a valid channel that you could post your notifications on if user denies the permission. That effectively prevents you from posting notifications for foreground services as well (the documentation states it will permit calling startForeground with a valid notification but actually doesn't if the permission was denied and channel was not created beforehand.) But, before asking the permission, you can create a notification channel, then the system will not post it when startForeground is called but it will not crash even if the user denies the permission afterwards. So, create your notification channels in application class, devs! Just wanted to mention it here.

[@original_anu]

This permission requirement is a headache. Many people might dismiss it unintentionally and might now know how to re-enable it from App info

[@Sam-yb9ut]

Very helpful. I love this channel because I think this is one of the channels which are has up-to-date information. Most of the other Android channel videos are very old. Appreciate the level of free content which is provided. Thank you.

[@ishantsharma16]

Please upload push notification video also and how to manage push notification when app is open

[@lyawileh.a8741]

This is the perfect video I was looking for. Thanks very much.

[@ubersticks]

Thanks Philip. Nice, quick tutorial.

[@tanveerhaiderjafri4133]

Thanks for mentioning in advance that, its all about locah notifications and not about push notifications. You also explaing difference between push and local notification. good work bro.

[@bortolex]

Thank you! Really nice and understandble tutorial!

[@ahmedassas5065]

Please explain to us about sending at a specific time by jobscheduler

[@KingFuYouTube]

Philipp Lackner I have been watching every single tutorial video you published. Furthermore, I really like your videos and I would love to see more. Moreover, I hope that you will do a video on foreground service soon. Thank you for your hard work.👍

[@osisuper98]

He’s done it before in one of his old videos.

[@wahyukoco4562]

wow! you actually solve my problem! i kinda regret not watching this earlier when found a bug in notification :(

[@Dibyendu.M]

Thank you brother. This video is very helpful. Love from India. ❤

[@jarvis2913]

Very Informative thanks for notifications guide

[@akthamahmed2171]

Always Awesome tutorial thanks you 🌹

[@yuruar]

Another great video, thanks!

[@dkakqlql]

Nice video! I refer to your videos often. Thanks. Can i ask how to create android project templates like initial source code you given? Have a nice day 😊😊

[@AliouneDupuy]

👍 great video. Thanks!

[@tmjromao]

Hello Philipp L. many thanks for another informative and well explained video. Could you explain how to load a static json file from assets folder to a data class in viewmodel context? Using Moshi or other solution. Soon joining the community, thanks, best regards

[@denisk3852]

Thank you! How about video for WearOs app with Compose? How to connect an app with watches?

[@Jurica-mtb]

Hi! I would like to know if there is a way to improve the use of Android navigation app which would notify users by screen flashing, vibrating or maybe sending warning to an external device which would sit in user's pocket when user is approaching to waypoints specified inside a ?.gpx file. Here's why: when riding a motorcycle during sunny days the mobile screen reflects the sunshine and it is hard to see a waypoints on display and riders can't hear the phone's sounds. I guess screen flashing would be the best way to warn/notify riders. So far I liked OsmAnd app for navigation. If it could display warnings as I described it would be great because available voice prompts are kind of useless.

[@aurere1612]

Hello, thanks for this video ! How can we make the notifications display as heads-up ?

[@canaldobiel2105]

thanks a lot excelent explanation

[@sohaibkhan3279]

very informative

[@theevan3867]

Thank you!

[@mohamadalighezelbashyan4482]

Can we put createNotificationChannel method in dependency injection instead of the "MyApp" class?

[@yeyaanshkit]

Please create a whole new series of Android Development (Kotlin) for Beginners Please... Love you from India🇮🇳🥰🥰🥰

[@kamanchomorgan9655]

Pleased make video about bottom navigation with compose destinations

[@khangchow5694]

Hi Philips, I wonder if we can pin a notification on top without make it heads up (setting priority high)

[@kirwakelvinkering3122]

Thank you so much .assume we are loading data from the bacend server ,how can we keep the user notofied even when the app js closed .thank you Philip .🙏

[@movieschannel654]

Hey Philipp Lackner - Can you please help me with test cases on Sealed classes?

[@haykmkrtchyan7093]

I'm sure you'll get 100K subs 😁

[@bradley123225]

Can you do a fcm push notification tutorial please.

[@motivationsondemand]

Please explain How to shedule notfication for every day at a specific time

[@RaHuLSiNgH-gt4im]

The background power consumption manager feature is killing the notification after running for a few minutes (especially this feature in vivo models). Put some light on this.

[@911_Shorts]

is there any video for background notification?

[@rogercolque]

about runtime permssion app for notification appear in Android 13. even if is local notificacions need that righT?

[@anhemcoder4745]

I have 3 routes: Home(), Product(), ProductDetail(). . When my app is not running. I sent a notification from firebase, my phone received the notification. When I open the notification I want it to lead to ProductDetail(), but now when I open it it only leads to the Home() route. When the application is running and receives a notification, the above behavior leads to the ProductDetail()--> route (What I want). Can you tell me how to fix it or what keywords to search for? Thanks

[@shreyashachoudhary480]

Thanks man! . . Still waiting for MacBook give away 😅

[@olavgausaker1]

Thanks for a great video, but I can't manage to get the notification to appear. Any ideas?

[@mustafaammar551]

you are the best

[@abdirahmanhassan707]

Hey can you make a tutorial for increasing push notification for Android the maximum is 24 can you make it to 50 or 80 I like using Twitter but I only get 24 maximum.

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[@noxhirecords]

I was only missing to add the Notification Channel reference in the NotificationCompat.Builder(context, CHANNEL_ID). Thanks :D

[@Vword]

what is the difference between the priority in the notification channel and in the notificationcompat builder?

[@victorlapin2080]

All lights/vibrations/priority stuff in notification builder refers to lower sdk versions, when notification channels weren't a thing. On higher sdk, if there's a notification channel, all settings should be set in there

[@dennis4521]

What if we want a button just to dismiss it? Is there a way of doing that?

[@codeforandroid]

Nice video

[@PandaTop.]

Дякую!

[@hossamqandel5638]

hi philip.. i wanna ask you about something but first let me tell small secret " You are a gift from heaven for Android application programmers my quistion is if i am implementing FCM and i received newMessage.. how can i handle this newMessage to work only when user on foreground service? the problem is fcm extended class show notification even app closed or not and fcm class dont have foreground funcation

[@martinseal1987]

Can you add full screen notifications

[@ankitverma3932]

I don't think that is possible

[@kishorramani007]

KTOR full tutorial

[@commenter-cl4gl]

What about send notification without firebase?

[@PhilippLackner]

What do you mean? This video shows exactly that

[@commenter-cl4gl]

@@PhilippLackner im sorry, i mean i watched your video build chat app using mongoDB and Ktor, can you make videos push notif when the chat come in and notif will show

[@jagat.jeeban]

@@PhilippLackner Please make a video about sending push notifications with firebase...like in a chat app when someone send a msg the notification will show up in the notification bar.

[@ankitverma3932]

@@jagat.jeeban There is already a video about sending push notification in this channel.

[@KeibolStraiker]

Not full guide if you don´t show how to receive the notification when app is closed.

[@ChrisAthanas]

To pass a bundle with the intent, you will need to use the flags: PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT or PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT, otherwise the extras are ignored. Unkown why, just like a lot of android strangeness, it will remain a mystery.