Extension: Modified Notification Style to support Android 12 and above

[Kumaraswamy]

Modified version of Notification Style Extension By @Jarlissonlira2, adds support for Android >= 12
Refer to the original topic for documentation:

[FREE] Notification Style: extension with various types of notification

1. Introduction Extension name: Notification Style The Notification Style extension carries many built-in notification features like BigText, LargeIcon, BigPicture, SmallIcon, MediaStyle, MessageStyle. That way, you won't be so limited in talking to the user. Latest Version: 1.3 Released: 2020-06-06T04:35:00Z (UTC) Last Updated: 2020-07-04T19:24:00Z (UTC) 2. Designer Properties [image] 3. Blocks [component_event (12)] [component_event (13)] [component_event (14)] [component_method (…

Fork of the extension: github.com/XomaDev/NotificationStyleAIX
License (MIT) and modified sources (rush): rush-compatible/notification-style

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New permission blocks for Android Tiramisu (for >= 33).
android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS

Make sure to ask the permission if the API level is 33 and above.
Or the notifications wont appear.

NotificatioStyle_MIT.aia (60.1 KB)

(android 13)

com.jdl.NotificationStyle.aix (32.7 KB)

[Nastenka_Rozkina]

the request NOTIFICATION PERMISSION does not appear on android 13

[Taifun]

@Nastenka_Rozkina

the request NOTIFICATION PERMISSION does not appear

Yes, because App Inventor targets SDK31

Make sure to ask the permission if the API level is 33 and above.
Or the notifications wont appear.

Taifun

[Nastenka_Rozkina]

how to open app settings so that the user manually allows notifications?

[11191]

Unable to change icon of the notification. Set it from assets, 48x48 png file, but icon does not change. Please, help

[Kumaraswamy]

Hi, can you please show me your blocks?

[11191]

I set it on the Designer page, not with blocks.

[Taifun]

And what happens, if you set it via blocks?
Taifun

[11191]

Understood. It because I'm using these notifications inside of background procedure with Itoo extension. If I define an icon inside this procedure, it works.

[Fabio_Duranti]

Hi everyone,
I repeat my post already posted in the original thread now closed.
With AppInventor I created a streaming player application for my Radio (and TV).
I'm updating the application with new features and I wanted to replace the current notification code with this extension, which works fine, but doesn't communicate properly metadata (image, artist/title, lyrics...) to connected bluetooth devices (headphones, cars, etc. ..); and it doesn't even communicate commands from buttons.
The reason for the metadata is that live streaming doesn't have a fixed duration like a music file, and therefore you need to set this because android needs to know about it. Without this information, the notification system does not communicate metadata correctly with the device.
If you could fix this by inserting a block that allows you to specify the duration of the streamed content, (typically indeterminate live stream has duration -1 ) and thus fix the bug, I'd like to use that for my update.
Thank you.

p.s. Thanks to Patryk_F for the hint below; that is the extension that I am currently using, but that lacks some possibilities, some of which I have personally corrected by writing and rewriting part of the code (such as the update for Android 12+), others it is very complex because, given the structure, you would have to rewrite all the code.

[FREE] Notification Style: extension with various types of notification

For the music player use another extension which is also very good and has everything you need. https://ullisroboterseite.de/android-AI2-MediaNotification-en.html

[Patryk_F]

Both extensions are open source, so you can modify them for your purposes.

[Fabio_Duranti]

Of course, I thought they were useful suggestions for the whole community, to improve the extensions for everyone's benefit.
Whoever developed the extension knows the procedure better, and certainly takes less time than us who are "amateurs" of the code, to implement its functions.
Thank you for your answer.

[Kumaraswamy]

Hi, I'm having trouble understanding what exactly you want to achieve.

As a note, this extension is not meant to be a "music streaming" extension, it just provides interfaces for notifications.

[Fabio_Duranti]

You are right, and it is precisely the notifications that I am talking about.
Among the options there is also the possibility to use it with various types of notifications such as music and audio, and if you use it for notifications involving a player playing streaming audio (not just audio files), it doesn't work well with devices connected in bluetooth for reasons that I have said.
I thought it was interesting for everyone to report it for any improvements, and I don't want to get it just for me.
I apologize if I have been misunderstood and if interested I could explain better.

[Tomas_Afonso]

Hey, Im talking about Android 11 to not make any confusion. I have created an Chat App with Firebase, but I have no idea how to make a notification when a message is received. Here's the .aia file :
App_Conversa.aia (182.6 KB)

Can someone help me pls?

[TIMAI2]

Use the dataChanged event (if you are using the Firebase component) to trigger a notification.

[Tomas_Afonso]

Yeah, thanks a lot man!

[gopal_gopal]

Hello how to use these extension with background extension?

[Taifun]

You can find several examples in the itioo thread

[FREE] Background Tasks: Itoo

Itoo 2 [image] The newer version of Itoo now has updated ItooX framework which runs more reliably across all platforms, devices and Android versions. Services Itoo supports two types of services. Foreground keeps the service alive throughout the session without interruptions. a permanent notification will be displayed throughout the session from Oreo. Background Task unlike the foreground task, it is executed on a different process. vulnerable to unexpected / sudden shutdown by…

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