cordova-plugin-local-notifications: Cannot mute sound or vibration on Android 8.x

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Your Environment

Plugin version: 0.9.0-beta.2 and HEAD
Platform: Android
OS version: 8.0.0
Device manufacturer / model: Samsung Galaxy S7
Cordova version (cordova -v): 8.0.0
Cordova platform version (cordova platform ls): android 7.0.0
Plugin config
Ionic Version (if using Ionic)

Expected Behavior

Tell us what should happen

A notification like this is scheduled:

cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
  id: 
  title: 'Testing 
  text: 'Vibrate set to false, sound set to false, priority set to 
  vibrate: false,
  sound: false,
  priority: -2  // NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_MIN
});

When fired, this notification should show up in the tray, but no sound or vibration is played.

Actual Behavior

Tell us what happens instead If the system notification sound level is not mute/vibrate, the phone plays the default notification sound when the notification appears.

If the system notification sound level is vibrate, the phone vibrates when the notification appears.

Steps to Reproduce

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Schedule a notification with vibrate=false, sound=false, priority=-2

cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
    id: 0,
    title: 'Testing notification',
    text: 'Vibrate set to false, sound set to false, priority set to min',
    vibrate: false,
    sound: false,
    priority: -2
});

I have a minimal example in this repository, it’s just the hello world app that fires on deviceready: https://github.com/eric-zeng/no-vibrate

Context

What were you trying to do?

I’m trying to show notifications that show up silently without disturbing the user. It should make no sound or vibration.

Debug logs

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ios XCode logs
Android: $ adb logcat

08-14 15:12:24.629  1403  1403 I CordovaActivity: Apache Cordova native platform version 7.0.0 is starting
08-14 15:12:24.629  1403  1403 D CordovaActivity: CordovaActivity.onCreate()
08-14 15:12:25.368  1403  1403 D CordovaWebViewImpl: >>> loadUrl(file:///android_asset/www/index.html)
08-14 15:12:25.423  1403  1403 D CordovaActivity: Started the activity.
08-14 15:12:25.437  1403  1403 D CordovaActivity: Resumed the activity.
08-14 15:12:25.516  1403  1403 D CordovaWebViewImpl: onPageDidNavigate(file:///android_asset/www/index.html)
08-14 15:12:26.365  1403  1403 D CordovaWebViewImpl: onPageFinished(file:///android_asset/www/index.html)
08-14 15:12:26.655  1403  1530 D local-notification: Next trigger at: Tue Aug 14 15:12:26 PDT 2018
08-14 15:12:26.695  1403  1530 W Notification: Use of stream types is deprecated for operations other than volume control
08-14 15:12:26.695  1403  1530 W Notification: See the documentation of setSound() for what to use instead with android.media.AudioAttributes to qualify your playback use case
08-14 15:12:26.701  1403  1530 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.746  3986  5457 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.747  3986  5371 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.748  3986  5371 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.750  3986  5457 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.754  3986  5457 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.757  3986  5371 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.761  1403  1403 D CordovaWebViewImpl: >>> loadUrl(javascript:cordova.plugins.notification.local.fireEvent("trigger",{"id":0,"title":"Testing notification","text":"Vibrate set to false, sound set to false, priority set to min","vibrate":false,"sound":false,"priority":-2,"actions":[],"attachments":[],"autoClear":true,"clock":true,"defaults":0,"groupSummary":false,"launch":true,"led":true,"lockscreen":true,"number":0,"progressBar":{"enabled":false,"value":0,"maxValue":100,"indeterminate":false},"silent":false,"smallIcon":"res:\/\/icon","timeoutAfter":false,"trigger":{"type":"calendar"},"wakeup":true,"meta":{"plugin":"cordova-plugin-local-notification","version":"0.9-beta.3"}},{"event":"trigger","foreground":true,"queued":false,"notification":0}))
08-14 15:12:26.766  3986  5457 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:26.775  1403  1403 D CordovaWebViewImpl: >>> loadUrl(javascript:cordova.plugins.notification.local.fireEvent("add",{"id":0,"title":"Testing notification","text":"Vibrate set to false, sound set to false, priority set to min","vibrate":false,"sound":false,"priority":-2,"actions":[],"attachments":[],"autoClear":true,"clock":true,"defaults":0,"groupSummary":false,"launch":true,"led":true,"lockscreen":true,"number":0,"progressBar":{"enabled":false,"value":0,"maxValue":100,"indeterminate":false},"silent":false,"smallIcon":"res:\/\/icon","timeoutAfter":false,"trigger":{"type":"calendar"},"wakeup":true,"meta":{"plugin":"cordova-plugin-local-notification","version":"0.9-beta.3"}},{"event":"add","foreground":true,"queued":false,"notification":0}))
08-14 15:12:35.703  5346  5346 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.723  3986  5371 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.724  3986  5371 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.724  3986  5457 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.725  3986  7209 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.726  3986  5457 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.726  3986  5371 D Notification: allPendingIntents
08-14 15:12:35.727  3986  6719 D Notification: allPendingIntents

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Created 6 years ago
Comments: 32

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I am using Android 8 and vibration is present too !

klochko7 on Dec 11, 2018

@angel1st You would be better of by using the fork I made, I will update and maintain it since we use the plugin for our own apps too.

But the problem with the katzer version is that Android 8 uses notification channels, where all functions need to be enabled before you can use them. That’s why your properties are not even used, even when you declare them.

What I did in the fork is setting the channel to HIGH_PRIORITY, this method prevents the app from ignoring the notifications when in Doze mode.

The changes needed to make the vibration and sound work again, is to pass the paramters to the channel before sending out notifications.

channel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, CHANNEL_NAME, IMPORTANCE_HIGH);
  if(!options.isSilent()) channel.setBypassDnd(true);
  if(!options.isWithoutLights()) channel.enableLights(true);
  channel.enableVibration(options.isWithVibration());
  channel.setLightColor(options.getLedColor());
  if(options.isWithoutSound()) {
      channel.setSound(null, null);
  } else {
      channel.setSound(options.getSound(), null);
  }

With the changes shown in the code above, you’ll be able to make the notification silent, enable / disable vibration, enable / disable LED, all of those options which stopped working with Android 8.

To use the changes I recommend you to trigger notifications with all properties included. This is an example of our integration (I put some comments in the code for you):

cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
      id: 1,
      title: 'Title of your notification',
      text: 'Text of your notification',
      sticky: true, // Only use this is you want your notification to be sticky / ongoing!
      lockscreen: true, // Only use this if you want the notification to be shown in lockscreen!
      foreground: true, // Only use this if you want to show the notification when app is in foreground
      priority: 2, // High priority
      actions: [
            { id: 'acceptPush', title: 'Accept' }, // Example for an action button
            { id: 'denyPush', title: 'Deny' } // Example for an action button
      ]
});

I also fixed /added the issue https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/issues/1671 in my fork.

If you have any questions about the properties just let me know and I can explain them.

Good luck and I hope this helps you out 😃

Steffaan on Sep 14, 2018

@angel1st

Hello, your first issue is not a problem within the fork, same thing happens in the master version of katzer. The xml file is not deleted after removing the plugin.

I don’t have the issue fetching the plugin, are you sure everything is setup correctly on your environment?

Try cordova plugin add https://github.com/Steffaan/cordova-plugin-local-notifications

Steffaan on Sep 13, 2018

I have the same issue ! I am using Samsung Galaxy android 8 and cannot mute sound or vibration.

klochko7 on Dec 12, 2018

Guys, I have one other case re local notification. Here is the scenario - While app is running, I am receiving local notification and it stays on the notification area. Now, if I click on the notification, while the app is running (either in front or background mode), it will trigger click event, so I can handle this notification according to app logic. Then, I close the app. The notification is still on the notification area. So far so good. Now, if I open notification drawer and click on the notification, it will load the app, however, I don’t see any local-notification event being fired, hence I am not able to handle a specific notification type according to app logic. Any thoughts how this might be done?

angel1st on Sep 19, 2018