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I got this error when I tried to cancel my notification which has string as an id. java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid int: "abc"
In LocalNotification.java:141, there is this line:
nc.cancel(Integer.parseInt(notificationId));
The cancel notification required an Integer as id eventhough id add methode, id is a string

• auto cancel feature
• custom repeat interval
• redesign callbacks (ontrigger & onclick)
• exec onclick/background callback even app is not running yet
• less bugs
• more pull requests

I noticed that yesterday a 0.6.3 release was created here, but on PGB I still see 0.6.2. I'm not too familiar with the process; is the update waiting for PGB approval? (in which case I can go bug them about it).

Thanks!

I'm wondering what your thoughts are about changing the notification restore process on Android to make sure that any notifications that hadn't fired while the device was off get restored with a minimum of the current datetime when the device is rebooted. This would ensure that no local notifications are missed, which currently occurs.

This change would match the behaviour on iOS (which that OS handles for us).

Edit: I'll note that I've already made this change for myself and would be willing to submit a PR. Just wanted to check first.

Hi, a nice feature would be an option(or a flag), to let us decide if we want to keep the notification when clicked, or dismiss the notification (on android).
BTW i don't know how to put labels and Thanks for all your hard work.

It seems like the intention is that when the title is left empty ( the message is required ) there should not be an extra newline between app name and message.

When I use "" for the title there is an extra line break. I don't think there should be.

Hi katzer,

Please help me. I found problem when i remove app from Recent App List from Nexus 7.

I found error(Logcat)

11-24 20:52:18.288: D/AndroidRuntime(840): Shutting down VM
11-24 20:52:18.288: W/dalvikvm(840): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a13300)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start receiver de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.LocalNotificationReceiver: java.lang.NullPointerException
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:2236)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:130)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1271)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.LocalNotificationOptions.getIcon(LocalNotificationOptions.java:120)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.LocalNotificationReceiver.buildNotification(LocalNotificationReceiver.java:101)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.LocalNotificationReceiver.onReceive(LocalNotificationReceiver.java:62)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:2229)
11-24 20:52:18.307: E/AndroidRuntime(840): ... 10 more

Thank You
Sandip

Hi I found that I can't remove the notification by ID

I was doing this like:
window.plugin.notification.local.add({
id:1,
date: minsFromNow
});

window.plugin.notification.local.cancel('1');

is that correct? I think it is better to have a example on it in the docs, thanks:)

When a notification is set on Android 2.2 the application force closes. This is immediately after calling:

window.plugin.notification.local.add();

In Eclipse I can see this error:

01-07 09:26:31.015: E/dalvikvm(8751): Could not find class 'android.app.Notification$Builder', referenced from method de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.Receiver.buildNotification

Here is the whole error report:

01-07 09:26:31.015: E/dalvikvm(8751): Could not find class 'android.app.Notification$Builder', referenced from method de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.Receiver.buildNotification
01-07 09:26:31.015: D/MobileDataStateTracker(1339): replacing old mInterfaceName (rmnet0) with rmnet0 for supl
01-07 09:26:31.015: W/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 18 (Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;) in Lde/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/Receiver;
01-07 09:26:31.015: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: replacing opcode 0x22 at 0x0000
01-07 09:26:31.025: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: dead code 0x0002-0046 in Lde/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/Receiver;.buildNotification ()Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;
01-07 09:26:31.025: I/dalvikvm(8751): Could not find method android.app.Notification$Builder.setContentIntent, referenced from method de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.Receiver.setClickEvent
01-07 09:26:31.025: W/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 69: Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;.setContentIntent (Landroid/app/PendingIntent;)Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;
01-07 09:26:31.025: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0030
01-07 09:26:31.025: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: dead code 0x0033-0034 in Lde/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/Receiver;.setClickEvent (Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;)Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;
01-07 09:26:31.025: I/dalvikvm(8751): Could not find method android.app.Notification$Builder.getNotification, referenced from method de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.Receiver.showNotification
01-07 09:26:31.025: W/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 68: Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;.getNotification ()Landroid/app/Notification;
01-07 09:26:31.035: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x001b
01-07 09:26:31.035: I/dalvikvm(8751): Could not find method android.app.Notification$Builder.build, referenced from method de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.Receiver.showNotification
01-07 09:26:31.035: W/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 67: Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;.build ()Landroid/app/Notification;
01-07 09:26:31.035: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0029
01-07 09:26:31.035: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: dead code 0x001e-0021 in Lde/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/Receiver;.showNotification (Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;)V
01-07 09:26:31.035: D/dalvikvm(8751): VFY: dead code 0x002c-0030 in Lde/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/Receiver;.showNotification (Landroid/app/Notification$Builder;)V

Hi, first of all... thank you a lot for this plugin... this is exactly what i was looking for!

But i have a question... i am new to phonegap and android apps and i would like to do a certain action when the user opens the app by clicking on the notification ... is that possible please?

i would like to attach a vibration signal to the notification but i dont know how.

"navigator.notification.vibrate(2000);" i can put this code next to the "window.plugin.notification.local.add" but this will not work when the notification is set up to the specific time... it would be great if there would be some callback function or something like: "foreground: 'app.foreground' " but : "active": 'some_function' or something.

Thx

Thanks for your help. I believe things mostly work as they should now. However there are still a couple of issues and one problem.

First, to simplify testing, I modified LocalNotification.java with the following (currently android only):

if (repeat.equalsIgnoreCase("quarterly")) {
        interval = AlarmManager.INTERVAL_FIFTEEN_MINUTES;
} else if (repeat.equalsIgnoreCase("hourly")) {
        interval = AlarmManager.INTERVAL_HOUR;
} else if (repeat.equalsIgnoreCase("daily")) {
        interval = AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY;
    } else if (repeat.equalsIgnoreCase("weekly")) {

This allows to schedule local notifications more frequently to test how my app handles certain sequences of events.

I still have the problem that (repeated) local notifications are not delivered when the app is not running, for instance after a reboot. I have been looking on the internet, this seems by design on android. Is there a convenient way to make sure that these notifications are also delivered after a reboot? I am pretty ignorant regarding android development, so any pointers or help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Hugo

Is there a way to install the previous version of cordova-plugin-local-notifications again(v0.6.0). Thanks

hi, i'm testing on nexus7. if i set notification date to tomorrow morning(next day), nothing was triggered. setting it to today's date no problem.

Currently, for repeat we only have the options daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. But I would find it very useful to have the possibility to repeat with shorter intervals, for example hourly or even every 'x' number of minutes.
Would this be possible?

1. I add a notification that is to be shown in 10 seconds.
2. I quickly kill the app in task manager
3. When the 10 seconds pass, OS alerts me that the app is not running. No notification.

Hi.

I've noticed that if I declare my callbacks inside an anonymous function I can a "foreground is undefined" exception

 (function(){
    function foreground () {
       // ...
    }

    window.plugin.notification.local.add({
        id: "1",
        message: 'text',
        foreground: 'foreground'
    });
 }());

If I declare the callbacks globally, they work fine, like

 function foreground () {
     // ...
  }

 (function(){

    window.plugin.notification.local.add({
        id: "1",
        message: 'text',
        foreground: 'foreground'
    });
 }());

This is a bit problematic for my application design, as I would prefer not to have too many functions cluttering global. Is there something I'm missing here? Why are the callbacks defined as strings? Could we not pass the callbacks in directly like

    window.plugin.notification.local.add({
        id: "1",
        message: 'text',
        foreground: function(){
            // 
        }
    });

Thanks.

Hi Katzer,

i was trying to install the plugin but it is not working on emulator or real device
the logcat says:

Uncaught ReferenceError: device is not defined at file:///android_asset/www/plugins/de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notifications/www/local-notification.js:32

can you please help,

Best Regards,

Basta

First, I want to thank you for this plug-in, it is exactly what I need for my application (all of the other notification plug-ins work by using GCM and I don't think my application calls for that)

The notifications push to my device fairly well. However, my application calls for seven notifications to be called in a semi-random fashion throughout a day. I figured that I could add these seven notifications upon a user opening their application by passing seven randomly incremented times to these notifications--all at once, at the opening of the application-- but instead of the notifications occuring at their assigned times, they are all called at once at one of their assigned times.

Here is a picture of the drop down notifications-- note how the times in the messages are all the same, when they should all be 60 seconds apart from one another:

Here are my calls to the plugin to test queuing multiple notification calls:

 function addNotificationNow(){
        var now              = new Date().getTime(),
        _60_seconds_from_now = new Date(now + 60*1000),
        _120_seconds_from_now = new Date(_60_seconds_from_now + 60*1000),
        _180_seconds_from_now = new Date(_120_seconds_from_now + 60*1000);

        window.plugin.notification.local.add({
            id:         1, // is converted to a string
            title:      'E-Cigarette Survey Reminder',
            message:    'Tap to open up the survey application',
            repeat:     'daily',
            badge:      1,
            foreground: 'foreground',
            background: 'background'
        });

        window.plugin.notification.local.add({
            id:         2, // is converted to a string
            date:       _60_seconds_from_now,
            title:      'E-Cigarette Survey Reminder',
            message:    _60_seconds_from_now.toString(),
            repeat:     'daily',
            badge:      2,
            foreground: 'foreground',
            background: 'background'
        });
        window.plugin.notification.local.add({
            id:         3, // is converted to a string
            date:       _120_seconds_from_now,
            title:      'E-Cigarette Survey Reminder',
            message:    _120_seconds_from_now.toString(),
            repeat:     'daily',
            badge:      3,
            foreground: 'foreground',
            background: 'background'
        });
        window.plugin.notification.local.add({
            id:         4, // is converted to a string
            date:       _180_seconds_from_now,
            title:      'E-Cigarette Survey Reminder',
            message:    _180_seconds_from_now.toString(),
            repeat:     'daily',
            badge:      4,
            foreground: 'foreground',
            background: 'background'
        });
    }

I imagine that this error has something to do with the asynchronous nature of javascript. Unfortunately I am inexperienced with an asynchronous language such as this and I am not sure how to remedy my situation. I know that this is a place to report issues and not solutions to our individual problems, but I am unaware of a workaround. Is there currently a way to call multiple notifications in a day, at set times?

Hi,
i'm not able to change the icon notification into my app icon...

My index.js:
(...)
window.plugin.notification.local.add({ message: 'Great app!', icon: 'icon'});
(...)

My AndroidManifext.xml:
(...)

(...)

Work only icons under android.R.drawable ("android.R.drawable...."), for example window.plugin.notification.local.add({ message: 'Great app!', icon: 'ic_dialog_map'}) works fine.

What is the mistake?
How can I see the app icon in the notification?

Hi, like the title says: When i restart my phone i get "unfortunately myapp has stopped working", if i uninstall your plugin i don't get that error. Thanks in advance again.
Btw is there a way i can make a donation, i'm asking for a lot of changes. Thanks again

Hello,

Thanks for porting this plugin to phonegap3

It works great on android but i'm wondering the best way to put a custom icon for the notification.

Currently i see this way: in LocalNotificationOptions.java , i need to change this line with my custom png (ic_launcher):

public int getIcon () {
    return options.optInt("icon", R.drawable.ic_launcher);
}

But in order to works well, i need to fix the import to:

import $MY_PACKAGE_NAME.R;

And this operation need to be done manually after the installation of the plugin.. for each upgrade ....

What do you think? Is there a better way?

Missing implementation to exec the callback function if the app is in background and a notification is clicked.

Firstly,

I think your example is wrong it has:
repeat: 'Dont forget to buy some flowers.',
I think that should be message or something?

My actual question is how does the repeat property work? Do you set a date and then it repeats at that date/time depending on how the repeat is set? Ex. If is set it for 8:00am tomorrow, does it repeat at 8am everyday if I set it to "daily"?

Thanks. Looks like a very helpful plugin.

I installed it and it is working on iOS, but is not on android;

it produced no error in the code, but the notification doesn't come out as well, any idea?

My environment is cordova 3.1 and android 4.2

Thanks!

This is the error log:

10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: de.appplant.cordova.plugin.LocalNotification
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:217)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:172)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at org.apache.cordova.PluginEntry.getClassByName(PluginEntry.java:117)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at org.apache.cordova.PluginEntry.createPlugin(PluginEntry.java:93)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at org.apache.cordova.PluginManager.getPlugin(PluginManager.java:267)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at org.apache.cordova.PluginManager.execHelper(PluginManager.java:221)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at org.apache.cordova.PluginManager.exec(PluginManager.java:216)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at org.apache.cordova.ExposedJsApi.exec(ExposedJsApi.java:53)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.sharedTimerFired(Native Method)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.sharedTimerFired(Native Method)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.fireSharedTimer(JWebCoreJavaBridge.java:92)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.webkit.JWebCoreJavaBridge.handleMessage(JWebCoreJavaBridge.java:108)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at android.webkit.WebViewCore$WebCoreThread.run(WebViewCore.java:812)
10-29 17:06:53.590: W/System.err(5981): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: de/appplant/cordova/plugin/LocalNotification
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): ... 17 more
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "de.appplant.cordova.plugin.LocalNotification" on path: /data/app/com.dink.mha2013-2.apk
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:65)
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
10-29 17:06:53.600: W/System.err(5981): ... 17 more
10-29 17:06:53.600: I/System.out(5981): Error adding plugin de.appplant.cordova.plugin.LocalNotification.
10-29 17:06:53.600: D/PluginManager(5981): exec() call to unknown plugin: LocalNotification

Hi, sorry to keep bothering, now i don't get a black screen, and only on the last notification(when clicked) my app opens up, if i click a previous notification it opens the desktop. Thanks

Removing a single previously created notification doesn't work- the notification is shown on it's time. Removing all notifications works fine.

this plguin is really very nice. but i got some bugs on v0.6.2.
like black screen on android. so i use the v0.6.3.
when I add the v0.6.3 in my config.xml and zip my folder to build on the phonegap build.
<gap:plugin name="de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification" version="0.6.3" />
it will get error " plugin unsupported: de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification 0.6.3 ".
i noticed that the plugin version here(https://build.phonegap.com/plugins/331 ) was still 0.6.2.
so how can i use the v0.6.3 ?
thanks.

I had problems with the Integer.getInteger() method in Options.java/parse(). The configuration with a repeat interval of a chosen number minutes did not work. I tracked it down to the invocation of the above mentioned method.

To solve the issue, I replaced the code in the file Options.java:

    } else {
        interval = Integer.getInteger(repeat, 0) * 60000;
    }

with

    } else {
        interval = Integer.parseInt(repeat) * 60000;
    }

This seems to work properly.

I will look into contributing code using git pull / push for future issues.
Thanks.

Update the plugin to support Android.

A custom version of the LocalNotification plugin can be used.

I can create a notification without problems, it displays in my device's notification bar/ notification list, and looks like other notifications from other apps. However, when I click on the notification I get a black screen with only the app name and icon in it, my text isn't displayed and I don't seem to be able to put any content in it. I then have to click the device's back button to see my app again.

Is there some way I can skip this notification detail view entirely, or get more control over what is displayed in it? When I click on the notification I would prefer to have the background / foreground fire, and then go straight to my app.

Thanks for any help!

Hello,

I attached a local notification and closed the app completely. When it comes back through clicking on the notification the entire application crashes:

W/dalvikvm( 5776): threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x415cdba8)
W/System.err( 5776): java.lang.NullPointerException
W/System.err( 5776):    at de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.ReceiverActivity$1.run(ReceiverActivity.java:91)
W/System.err( 5776):    at java.util.Timer$TimerImpl.run(Timer.java:284)
W/FlurryAgent( 5776): Error logged: uncaught
W/FlurryAgent( 5776): Ending session
V/GmsNetworkLocationProvi(  999): onSetRequest: ProviderRequestUnbundled, reportLocation is true and interval is 60000
V/GmsNetworkLocationProvi(  999): SET-REQUEST
V/GmsNetworkLocationProvi(  999): in Handler: ProviderRequestUnbundled, reportLocation is true and interval is 60000
E/AndroidRuntime( 5776): FATAL EXCEPTION: Timer-0
E/AndroidRuntime( 5776): Process: de.myapp.app,´, PID: 5776
E/AndroidRuntime( 5776): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 5776):    at de.appplant.cordova.plugin.localnotification.ReceiverActivity$1.run(ReceiverActivity.java:91)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5776):    at java.util.Timer$TimerImpl.run(Timer.java:284)
W/ActivityManager(  609):   Force finishing activity de.myapp.app/.App

Can you help me with that?

For example JSON or a JSON string, which when the notification is tapped is passed to the FG/BG handler functions.

Is this currently possible? If not, please consider this a feature request.

Example use case: A notification for a specific event should open that event.

I know it is possible from a technical point of view, PushPlugin does it. https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin

Thanks for this great plugin! However, I encountered one issue with Android: When I specify a custom notification sound, it works OK when I specify a sound file on a remote location, i.e. sound: 'http://example.com/sound.mp3'
But when I specify a local sound file it doesn't work. No sound, no error messages either. My sound file is located in the top www directory. I tried many ways to specify the location, but nothing works:
sound: 'sound.mp3'
sound: '/sound.mp3'
sound: 'www/sound.mp3'
sound: '/www/sound.mp3'
sound: 'android_asset/www/sound.mp3'
sound: '/android_asset/www/sound.mp3'
sound: 'file://sound.mp3'
sound: 'file:///sound.mp3'
sound: 'file://www/sound.mp3'
sound: file:///www/sound.mp3'
sound: 'file://android_asset/www/sound.mp3'
sound: 'file:///android_asset/www/sound.mp3'

I this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Please advise

• thanks, Allard

Hi katzer,

am I missing out something else, did follow the examples and cordova added the plugins. But theres no log from the notification plugin. It shows error on "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'notification' of undefined"

ios，ipad mini 7.04
Android，HTC Sensation XL 4.03

when I call this methoid，window.plugin.notification.local.add({ message: 'Great app!' });

in ios， the status bar show the notification，and I click it（the notification message will "disappear"），it will "reback" to the original app，seems everything is OK

but in Android，the status bar show the notification too，and I click it（the notification message will "not disappear"），it will "reopen" another the original app（because of when I click it，it will show the splashscreen and do some initial function again），when I close the another the original app，it seems will "reback" to the original app，just like this address，Then the screen does not move, except when I press the Back or Home button
http://www.littlebau.com/reopen.png

Hi, with the new version 0.6.2, when myapp is on background and sends a notification, when i click on the notification it opens myapp the first time, but if i press the home button again and then click again in the notification i get nothing, or sometimes i get myapp name on top with a black screen after that if i press home and click again i still get the black screen, but if i press back when the black screen is on i get sent to the desktop, i click again on the notification it opens up myapp again. I have a backup with the previous plugin and it works fine, everytime i click on the notification it brings my app up. And i have included in AndroidManifest.xml android:launchMode="singleInstance" in the activity section. Thanks in advance.

the method "clear" and "clearAll" should be "cancel" & "cancelAll", the doc is written wrongly.

Hi,

I was wondering if you have any intention of making this plugin (which looks great, by the way) available for Phonegap build?

This is very much in demand as only push notifications seem to be supported at the moment, as per the thread here:

http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/how_to_get_status_bar_notification_in_android_using_only_phonegap_build

Cheers!

Hi,

I'm trying to integrate this plugin in to a Cordova based Sencha Touch app but when compiling it is causing an error when trying to load the necessary files of your plugin.

From what I can work out, it is looking for two files, APPLocalNotification.m and APPLocalNotification.o but they cannot be found. Other Cordova plugins work as expected and compile properly.

I have also posted this on Sencha's forum if you'd like a bit more explanation http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?279613-Native-build-plugin-dependancy-problem

After reading about this plugin and the platforms it supports, it seems very promising, and I would like to use it. However I am a phonegap build user, and I do not have a local phonegap environment.

I think that a lot of PGB users would benefit from this plugin. The only way for us to use it is for it to be submitted to phonegap build.

From what I understand, as long as the plugin is open source, anyone can submit it. But I think one would need a local phonegap environment to do so (?). Also, not sure if the author prefers to submit it himself (probably best since it would link directly to the github repository).

Thanks for doing all this work and letting me use it.

The documentation example:
window.plugin.notification.local.add({ message: 'Great app!' });

Didn't work for me on iOS in the simulator, until I added 'id:1' in the example call, or more robustly, changed defaults= id:0 to id:'0' in local-notification.js.

Looks like a type error, when "id" defaults to 0 it is an integer, and crashes in the compare code that casts it to a string:
(BOOL) strIsNullOrEmpty:(NSString*)str

The apple documentation is mentioning a limit:

Each application on a device is limited to 64 scheduled local notifications.
The system discards scheduled notifications in excess of this limit, keeping
only the 64 notifications that will fire the soonest.

Is this handled in your plugin?

I can see you are using a function archiveNotification to keep a copy of each notification but I did not see any kind of update function to refill the iOS notification buffer. In my old plugin there was this update function. Maybe you like to add some similar:

- (void)updateActiveNotifications:(NSMutableArray*)arguments withDict:(NSMutableDictionary*)options {

    // internal queue
    [self loadQueue];

    // sort queue by date
    NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor;
    sortDescriptor = [[[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"fireDate" ascending:YES] autorelease];
    NSArray *sortDescriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:sortDescriptor];
    NSArray *sortedArray = [self.queue sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:sortDescriptors];
    self.queue = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:sortedArray];

    // remove old messages, where fireDate is in past
    NSDate* currentDate = [NSDate date];
    BOOL moreToDelete = YES;
    while (moreToDelete && [self.queue count] > 0) {
        UILocalNotification* toCheck = [self.queue objectAtIndex:0];
        if ([currentDate compare:toCheck.fireDate] == NSOrderedDescending ) {
            [self.queue pop];
            //UILocalNotification* deleted = [self.queue pop];
            //NSLog(@"Notification Deleted - ID: %@ fireDate: %@", [deleted.userInfo objectForKey:@"notificationId"], deleted.fireDate);
        } else {
            moreToDelete = NO;
        }
    }
    NSLog(@"Queue holds %u Notifications", [self.queue count]);

    // delete all active notifications
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] cancelAllLocalNotifications];
    NSLog(@"Activ Notificaions cleaned");

    // loop over first 64 message and send them to active notification
    for (int i = 0; i < [self.queue count] && i < 65; i++) {
        UILocalNotification* toAdd = [self.queue objectAtIndex:i];
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:toAdd];
        //NSLog(@"Notification Added - ID: %@ text: %@ fireDate: %@", [toAdd.userInfo objectForKey:@"notificationId"], toAdd.alertBody, toAdd.fireDate);
    }

    // DEBUG: check active notify
    NSArray *notifications = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduledLocalNotifications];
    NSLog(@"%u new active Notifications have been added", [notifications count]);
    //for (UILocalNotification *notification in notifications) {
    //  NSString *notId = [notification.userInfo objectForKey:@"notificationId"];
    //
    //    NSLog(@"active Notification: ID: %@ text: %@ fireDate %@ ", notId, notification.alertBody, notification.fireDate);
    //}

    // store queue
    [self loadQueue];

    NSLog(@"Update active Notifications - done");
}

Update

I see you are using the archiv only for cancelAll. I think you could just call [[UIApplication sharedApplication] cancelAllLocalNotifications]; here.

window.plugin.notification.local.cancel does not work (maybe it does not pass on the string). cancelAll() on the other hand works.

var id = '12';
window.plugin.notification.local.cancel(id);

Thank you for the plugin by the way.

I'm not 100% sure of this, but it seems this plugin only supports Android 3.0 due to using Notification.Builder (SDK 11+). If this is the case, would you please add a note with the Android version requirement to your README?

Thanks!

This plugin looks extremely useful, however I am working on a project that is not in a position to make use of it because of the copyleft requirements of GPLv2 (one of the main reasons we selected Cordova is because it is Apache licensed and so placed no such restrictions).

Is there any possibility that you would consider relaxing the license or dual-licensing (e.g. LGPL/MIT/BSD)? As a point for consideration, I understand that there are potential issues distributing GPL projects via the iOS App Store which might limit the audience for this plugin (google VLC App Store, for example)

(Please understand that I entirely understand if you don't wish to switch from pure GPL - it's your choice. I hate to ask at all but I'm restricted from GPL by various commercial agreements)

Thanks for your work!

When a notification is created, not removed from the status bar when I go to see her.

Thank you very much.

Hi,

I'm using the plugin on my local phonegap android build (v3.2) application. So far, the application is generating and displaying the notifications properly.

When the application is in the foreground, the foreground callback I have written executes correctly. (Side-note: I have only been able to cancel the notification in the foreground by using setTimeout() with the cancel() method. Is this normal?)

To test the background callback, I perform the event that adds the notification, and then quickly close the app. Five seconds later, the notification appears in the status bar, as expected.

The problem is that when I click on the notification, the app simply restarts, but the background callback is not called. So all I see is the starting screen for my app. (But thanks to the new auto-cancel clause, the notification does disappear, a great addition!)

Am I mis-using the background callback? I tried adding the launch mode "singleInstance" clause to the main activity in the AndroidManifest.xml file, but this makes no impact whatsoever whether or not it is there.

Can you help me resolve this matter?

Thanks.

I have a alert.wav in my www folder and i have
sound:'alert.wav' in my function
i get the notifications fine but it doesn't plays my custom alert.wav

Let's say I run this:

window.plugin.notification.local.cancelAll();
window.plugin.notification.local.cancelAll();

and then I add in a new notification:

window.plugin.notification.local.add({
id:1,
date: minsFromNow,
message: "Duha completed. 5 minutes break has automatically started.",
sound:'www/sound/done.caf',
autoCancel:true
});

the notification won't come out.

Hi,

Great plugin. Worked well on my android emulator and device so far.

I believe I was hit with one of the bugs that was recently fixed, wrt notifications on Android when the app is running in the background.

So after upgrading the plugin with 'plugin rm' and then 'plugin add', I got the following error:

-compile:
[javac] Compiling 18 source files to /home/hugo/neurospaces_project/jokes-on-you/source/snapshots/0/cordova/jokes-on-you/platforms/android/bin/classes
[javac] /home/hugo/neurospaces_project/jokes-on-you/source/snapshots/0/cordova/jokes-on-you/platforms/android/src/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/LocalNotification.java:213: non-static variable this cannot be referenced from a static context
[javac] if (this.context == null) {
[javac] ^
[javac] /home/hugo/neurospaces_project/jokes-on-you/source/snapshots/0/cordova/jokes-on-you/platforms/android/src/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/localnotification/LocalNotification.java:214: non-static variable this cannot be referenced from a static context
[javac] this.context = context;
[javac] ^
[javac] Note: /home/hugo/neurospaces_project/jokes-on-you/source/snapshots/0/cordova/jokes-on-you/platforms/android/src/org/apache/cordova/datepicker/Datepicker.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
[javac] 2 errors
',
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I am currently stuck.

Any idea?

Thanks for the help, thanks for a great plugin.

Hugo