Send notifications when app is closed

[DcarpT]

hello everyone friends,
I am developing an application, I want to send notifications to the user when the application is closed for certain periods of time. This is similar to the messages that almost every app sends to our phones every day. As a result of my research, I saw that this is possible with some paid add-ons. Is there a way to do this completely free?

[Kumaraswamy]

@DcarpT

Is there a way to do this completely free?

Open Source • Background Tasks: Itoo

Itoo 4 [image] Graphics by Dennis Littawe [BuildWithLove] [Frame 1] 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 proc…

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Also check this post by @Mario1, where he demonstrates alarm at certain time with just Itoo:

Open Source • Background Tasks: Itoo

Great extension with it any application made with app inventor can work in the background. I see that there is doubt about how the extension works, I am attaching two aia files, which can help you understand how it works. One is a step counting app that works in the background, so it will always count your steps. Another is an Alarm manager Both work correctly, although as usually happens, the battery mode must be set to "No restrictions" for them to work correctly on lame Xiaomi or Samsung …

When you use Itoo, you'll need to have a persistent notification and a background service running all the time versus alarm managers.

[Taifun]

@DcarpT

I want to send notifications to the user when the application is closed for certain periods of time

@Kumaraswamy

When you use Itoo, you'll need to have a persistent notification and a background service running all the time

using an alarmmanager extension there is no persisent notification necessary...

while closing the app you could set the desired alarm time
to find out when the app is closing you could use the tools extension and its ActivityStateChanged event

[PAID] Alarm Manager Extension with Notification or Autostart

Description Alarm Manager Extension to send a notification or autostart the app at a given time or at boot time only once or repeated by interval (15 minutes, half hour, hour, half day, day and week, month and year). After clicking the notification your app will be started. You can define a start text, which will be passed to your app in method 'get plain start text' and trigger some action after your app is started. You also can define several alarms, just use a different id for each alarm. A…

App Inventor Extensions: Tools | Pura Vida Apps

Taifun

[vknow360]

@DcarpT

some paid add-ons

[FREE] OneSignalPush: Integrate latest OneSignal SDK (5.0.2) in your app to send Push notifications

1. Introduction This extension ships with latest One Signal SDK. You can easily receive push notifications sent from OneSignal dashboard in your app. You can send notifications to all subs and individuals. You can send a customized notification also. Latest Version: 3 Last Updated: 2023-12-08T18:30:00Z (UTC) 2. Blocks [image] [image] [image] 3. Usages [blocks (4)] [image] 4. Downloads You can find aix and aia file here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14JIpANok8Uxvy8Ae9…