hello, Milan!

how can I help you today?

Hello Mark. One question, regarding updating in progress notification. Consider next scenario: Message (file transfer) is received, notification is fired with vibration & ringtone played by notification itself. Once it is accepted, progress should be shown on notification, so notification is updated every x unit of time. Notification should not play vibration&ringtone each time it is updated. Keeping in mind we are speaking about 8 and above OS version, is there any other way to have that process silent except creating a new silent channel?

you should be able to just use setOnlyAlertOnce(true) on your NotificationCompat.Builder

only on builder... hm, I didn't tried that

this will put a flag on the notification that will cause it to only do the "alert" portion (ringtone, vibration pattern) if the notification is not already on-screen

ok, will try

thanks

I just added this to one of the book samples, for the next update, and it worked fine, without having to create a separate channel

I thought channel is responsible for it. Will test in a few minutes

And you are supposed to keep notification object cached? To not build it again (although with same notification ID)

I cached the Builder, IIRC

yes, I call builder.setProgress() on the same Builder instance, then have it build() a new Notification to use with NotificationManager

where I originally set up the Builder with setOnlyAlertOnce(true)

that's the sample service -- the only thing missing is the setOnlyAlertOnce(true) call, which I added to buildForeground() in the upcoming edition

tnx, that helped me.

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