Official Mobile Notification Package

Taking into account that this package is 2018.2+ only my very first suggestion would be to use java source files instead of precompiled aar.

 

And moreover I can't actually build project for iOS using Unity 2018.2. I'm getting error:

Code (csharp):

1. .../notification_test/Packages/com.unity.mobile.notifications/Runtime/iOS/Plugins/iOS/notifications/UnityNotificationWrapper.m'

As a workaround I can copy package contents to Assets/Plugins folder.
here is a github repo to test project https://github.com/stopiccot/notification_test

 

Hey nice package, have you plans for remote notification ?

 

Hi everyone, we have found a that the Unity Mobile Notifications Package notification does not work when the Application is closed (fully closed application by a user. Any idea if this package support push notifications when the application is not running?

 

It does work, you just have to be careful with which data you pass when scheduling your notification.
The Android api uses UTC time, whilst the iOS api uses local time.

 

There are 6 warning after I downloaded the package. What are these talking about and do I have to fix something?

/Users/Library/Unity/cache/packages/packages.unity.com/com.unity.mobile.notifications@1.0.0-preview.8/Runtime/Android/AndroidNotificationCenter.cs(482,20): warning CS0414: The private field `Unity.Notifications.Android.AndroidNotificationCenter.AndroidSDK' is assigned but its value is never used

/Users/Library/Unity/cache/packages/packages.unity.com/com.unity.mobile.notifications@1.0.0-preview.8/Editor/UnityNotificationEditorManager.cs(405,25): warning CS0219: The variable `textXxhdpi' is assigned but its value is never used

/Users/Library/Unity/cache/packages/packages.unity.com/com.unity.mobile.notifications@1.0.0-preview.8/Editor/UnityNotificationEditorManager.cs(480,17): warning CS0219: The variable `textureFormat' is assigned but its value is never used

/Users/Library/Unity/cache/packages/packages.unity.com/com.unity.mobile.notifications@1.0.0-preview.8/Editor/UnityNotificationsEditorManagerEditor.cs(36,22): warning CS0414: The private field `Unity.Notifications.UnityNotificationsEditorManagerEditor.identifierLabelText' is assigned but its value is never used

/Users/Library/Unity/cache/packages/packages.unity.com/com.unity.mobile.notifications@1.0.0-preview.8/Editor/UnityNotificationsEditorManagerEditor.cs(37,22): warning CS0414: The private field `Unity.Notifications.UnityNotificationsEditorManagerEditor.typeLabelText' is assigned but its value is never used

/Users/boat/Library/Unity/cache/packages/packages.unity.com/com.unity.mobile.notifications@1.0.0-preview.8/Runtime/iOS/iOSNotificationCenter.cs(663,60): warning CS0067: The event `Unity.Notifications.iOS.AuthorizationRequest.OnAuthRequest' is never used

Much appreciate!

 

@BoatBest You can't fix those warnings yourself as the files can't be accessed by us. If you use a warning as error type system you just have to disable it and clear the warnings, I ran into the same issue.

PauliusP: "... however currently scheduled notifications are not preserved when the device is restarted."
If anyone is wondering 'well how do I fix this then', you will just have to save the identifiers of the scheduled notifications in playerprefs and request them the next session, allowing you to cancel them etc.

For anyone that wants to use this package seriously I suggest you write a generic system that uses wrapper classes that wrap around the android and ios functionality, because how it's set up right now really isn't handy to use and looks like it has been written by three different people. Good luck.

 

Sorry for not including the test device Android device - it is Huawei android 6.0. Everything works, but when application if fully closed - no notifications are coming (We are using UTC only time both for IOS and Android).We have tested it on other android devices and they have android 7 or 8 (notification are coming even when closed), same for IOS 10,11,12.

 

Sure, I will also include the Android System settings

 

Hi.
Is there a way detect which notification caused the app to launch?
I would like to pass some custom data to a notification during scheduling that I can later retrieve when user taps that notification. This way, I can redirect user to related screen automatically depending on which notification he tapped.
Thanks

 

As far as I am aware it is not possible with the current functionalities, what you need for that is deeplinking, you could search around for some other plugins that do support that.

 

Hi,

When I tested notifications were not working in android Pie and Oreo devices. I tried setting fireTime to System.DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(10) and System.DateTime.UtcNow.AddSeconds(10).
The code I used is given below:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4. using UnityEngine;
5. using Unity.Notifications.Android;
6.  
7. public class LocalNotificationManager : MonoBehaviour
8. {
9.     private AndroidNotificationChannel androidNotificationChannel;
10.     private const string channelId = "0";
11.  
12.     // Use this for initialization
13.     void Start ()
14.     {
15.         DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
16.     }
17.  
18.     private void CreateNotificationChannel()
19.     {
20.         androidNotificationChannel = new AndroidNotificationChannel();
21.         androidNotificationChannel.Id = channelId;
22.         androidNotificationChannel.Name = "Default Channel";
23.         androidNotificationChannel.Importance = Importance.High;
24.         androidNotificationChannel.Description = "Generic notifications";
25.         AndroidNotificationCenter.RegisterNotificationChannel(androidNotificationChannel);
26.     }
27.  
28.     private void OnApplicationPause(bool pause)
29.     {
30.         if(pause)
31.         {
32.             SendNotification();
33.         }
34.         else
35.         {
36.             AndroidNotificationCenter.CancelAllNotifications();
37.         }
38.     }
39.  
40.     private void SendNotification()
41.     {
42.         AndroidNotification notification = new AndroidNotification();
43.         notification.Title = "Test";
44.         notification.Text = "Test";
45.         notification.FireTime = System.DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(10);
46.  
47.         int id = AndroidNotificationCenter.SendNotification(notification, channelId);
48.         Debug.Log("Notification status = " + AndroidNotificationCenter.CheckScheduledNotificationStatus(id));
49.     }
50. }
51.  

EDIT: I had forgotten to create notification channel. Now it is working.

 

Hi,

We are building our game with 2017.4.18f xcode 10.1 (10B61) and we did notice today that local push notifications for iOS are not working anymore.

Is that because of the API being deprecated?

 

I'm kinda confused how does this works.
- How do I know the ID of the notification when I clicked?
- Can I open a scene when somone click the notification?

The notifications works fine on Android, but when the phone locks and unlocks, the notification doesn't remove when clicked

Code (CSharp):

1.     void AndroidNotification()
2.     {
3.  
4.         var c = new AndroidNotificationChannel()
5.         {
6.             Id = "channel_id",
7.             Name = "Default Channel",
8.             Importance = Importance.High,
9.             Description = "Generic notifications",
10.         };
11.         AndroidNotificationCenter.RegisterNotificationChannel(c);
12.  
13.         var notification = new AndroidNotification();
14.         notification.Title = "Give me some food!";
15.         notification.Text = "test test test test test test test ";
16.         notification.FireTime = System.DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(30);
17.         notification.Color = Color.red;
18.         notification.Style = NotificationStyle.BigTextStyle;
19.        
20.  
21.         int identifier = AndroidNotificationCenter.SendNotification(notification, "channel_id");
22.  
23.         Debug.Log("Identifier: " + identifier.ToString());
24.  
25.  
26.     }

 

I had forgotten to create notification channel. Now it is working.

 

Hey,
Nice and useful package that saves getting something off the asset store. I am getting the same issue as @stopiccot_onthespot. I am using 2018.2.14f1. I was also wondering if Rich notifications are planned for a future release with this as they would be nice to have.

 

Hello. Have the same problem on various 18.2 versions.

 

Hey Unity folks,

I love how simple notifications became because of this package! Aside from the few typos and bugs on the manual page, it was pretty much a 'install package > copy/paste examples > fully working notifications'! Wonderful experience

Are there plans to support:
- custom sounds?
- banners and alerts, as described on Apple's website? It seems that the current implementation only allows banners, not alerts.

 

Does this mean that this feature won't be backported to Unity 2017 LTS?

 

Hi,

For iOS, what is this thread variable when scheduling a notification?

ThreadIdentifier = thread

Code (CSharp):

1. var notification = new iOSNotification()
2. {
3.     // You can optionally specify a custom Identifier which can later be
4.     // used to cancel the notification, if you don't set one, an unique
5.     // string will be generated automatically.
6.     Identifier = "_notification_01"
7.     Title = title,
8.     Body = "Scheduled at: " + DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() + " triggered in 5 seconds",
9.     Subtitle = "This is a subtitle, something, something important...",
10.     ShowInForeground = true,
11.     ForegroundPresentationOption = foregoungOption,
12.     CategoryIdentifier = "category_a",
13.     ThreadIdentifier = thread,
14.     Trigger = timeTrigger,
15. };

 

@_Paulius , there is some strange bug in the latest version of this package. Every time I restart Unity, selected icon for Android notifications cannot be used by the package anymore and need to be re-selected again:


I also noticed that to reproduce issue, Mobile Notification Settings tab should not be on screen before restart.

 

@dandepeched We have the exact same problem. When building this results in grey blobs as icons, meaning we can't build through our build server to make the release build. Big issue.

 

Getting
: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: no static method with name='getNotificationManagerImpl' signature='(Landroid.app.Application;Lcom.google.firebase.MessagingUnityPlayerActivityLjava/lang/Object;' in class Ljava.lang.Object;
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: no static method with name='getNotificationManagerImpl' signature='(Landroid.app.Application;Lcom.google.firebase.MessagingUnityPlayerActivityLjava/lang/Object;' in class Ljava.lang.Object;

with the current version of this package on Android 8.
Occurs on both physical and emulated device.

 

I guess I wasn't clear enough on this: Banners and Alerts are different kinds of notifications in the Apple ecosystem. They behave differently. For example: one disappears from the screen automatically, while the other requires an action (like... 'snooze'). I would love to see the option between these two types added to the Mobile Notification Package. This functionality isn't 'broken', it's simply missing.

Custom sounds are a common feature in some of the notification plugins on the Asset Store, so I don't believe it's hard to do. I would much rather use a continuously supported notification plugin from Unity than one from the Asset Store.

 

Can we somehow add some custom contents to the notifications and retrieve them when user click on a notification and open the game?

For example, clicking on a notification with content : "gem=100" will reward user 100 gems after the game is opened.

 

@_Paulius
After latest update following error appears in console:
Assembly has reference to non-existent assembly 'GUID:1e8e55397bd004beaba78a667566665f' (Packages/com.unity.mobile.notifications/Editor/Unity.Mobile.Notifications.Editor.asmdef)

Reinstalling package does not resolve it

 

@_Paulius
NotificationTime = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, DateTime.Now.Day, userHours, userMinutes, 00);
DateTime NextDate = NotificationTime.AddDays(1);
TimeSpan NextDayTime=NextDate.TimeOfDay;

AndroidNotification notification = new AndroidNotification();

notification.Title = "Todays Time " + DateTime.Now;
notification.Text ="NotificatonTime"+ NextDayTime;
notification.FireTime = NotificationTime;
notification.RepeatInterval = NextDayTime;
AndroidNotificationCenter.SendNotification(notification, WorkoutchannelId);

Im not getting Notification for Next day for same time if i put the repeat interval logic time, it works on android nougat but not on oreo or pie, can somebody tell me how to get repeat notification for next day on same time.

 

@_Paulius
OneTime Notification is working properly on Android 7,8,and 9 versions.But Repeat Notifications is not working in oreo and pie

Have submitted the bug report.

 

Hey Paulius,
currently it seems like it is not possible to group notifications on android. Will the support be added in the near future?

So far the package looks very promising

Thanks in advance!

 

@_Paulius I have submitted the bug report ,still no reply or updates from your side,waiting for your reply.

 

@_Paulius Is it possible to send notification while the application is paused?
In our application I have a secondary thread runnning outside unity that mantains a socket connection alive while it is in background, I'd like to send notification to the user based on the data received by the socket. (It must be realtime, I cannot create in advance a timed notification)

Everything is working fine with the app in foreground, but a major crash appear when the app in background try to create a notification.

 

@_Paulius I lost notification ids if app is killed. And CancleAllNotifications() does not work. That's why I have to storage scheduled notification ids and cancel them one by one.

 

Hey. I also have a problem with canceling the notification after restarting the application. I record the message IDs. At run time I can delete notification. But after restarting the application in response to the AndroidNotificationCenter.CheckScheduledNotificationStatus request, i get - "Unknown". And the message is not canceled.

PS. Sorry. Everything works well! I had a bug with saving the IDs.

Code (CSharp):

1.     private void Awake()
2.     {
3.         CreateNotificationChannel();
4.     }
5.  
6.     private void CreateNotificationChannel()
7.     {
8.         androidNotificationChannel = new AndroidNotificationChannel
9.         {
10.             Id = channelId,
11.             Name = "someID",
12.             Importance = Importance.Default,
13.             Description = "Generic notifications",
14.             EnableLights = true,
15.             EnableVibration = true,
16.             LockScreenVisibility = LockScreenVisibility.Public
17.         };
18.         AndroidNotificationCenter.RegisterNotificationChannel(androidNotificationChannel);
19.         Debug.Log($"notification channel - {AndroidNotificationCenter.GetNotificationChannel(channelId).Id}");
20.     }
21.  
22.     public void OnEnable()
23.     {
24.         for (int i = notificationBodies.Count - 1; i >= 0 ; i--)
25.         {
26.             Debug.Log($"notification status - {AndroidNotificationCenter.CheckScheduledNotificationStatus(notificationBodies[i].id)}");
27.         }
28.     }
29.  
30.     public void SendNotifitcation(NotificationBody _currentNot)
31.     {
32.         PrepareNotification(_currentNot);
33.  
34.         AndroidNotification notification = new AndroidNotification();
35.         notification.Title = localizationDictionarySO.GetLocalizedValueName(_currentNot.notificationType.ToString(), _currentNot.notificationType.ToString());
36.         notification.Text = localizationDictionarySO.GetLocalizedValueName(_currentNot.additionalInfo.ToString(), _currentNot.additionalInfo.ToString());
37.         notification.FireTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(_currentNot.delayInSeconds);
38.         notification.ShouldAutoCancel = true;
39.         notification.Color = iconColor;
40.         _currentNot.id = AndroidNotificationCenter.SendNotification(notification, channelId);
41.         notificationBodies.Add(_currentNot);
42.     }

 

@_Paulius

Hi paulius, great work for this package. It's very useful.

I just have two problems on iOS:

First, I would like to retrieve the current notification when the app is launched.
You could retrieve the notification here and save it in a variable: (UnityNotificationManager.m)

Code (CSharp):

1. //Called to let your app know which action was selected by the user for a given notification.
2. -(void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void(^)())completionHandler{
3.  
4.     completionHandler();
5.     [[UnityNotificationManager sharedInstance] updateDeliveredNotificationList];
6. }

Second, I would like retrieve the userInfo from content in the notification or at least a string to have some custom data (like a deeplink for example) and of course, a field in addition when you create the notification.

Thx for your job.

 

@_Paulius is there a chance to support iOS' alertStyle in the next release as well? This will allow devs to create alerts that persist on the screen and need to be dismissed explicitly (as opposed to the currently implemented default banners, which disappear after a short while). Alerts are useful for, for instance, real time events in a-sync multiplayer games.

See: https://developer.apple.com/documen...ons/unnotificationsettings/1648387-alertstyle

 

Hi Paulius, thx for all. I'm looking forward for the next release.

I also noticed an issue on iOS with the function "Initialize" in iOSNotificationCenter.

Code (CSharp):

1.         static bool Initialize()
2.         {
3.             #if UNITY_EDITOR || !PLATFORM_IOS
4.                         return false;
5.             #elif PLATFORM_IOS
6.  
7.             if (initialized)
8.                 return true;
9.            
10.             iOSNotificationsWrapper.RegisterOnReceivedCallback();
11.             return initialized = true;
12.             #endif
13.         }

This function is only called if you call RemoveScheduledNotification, RemoveDeliveredNotification, RemoveAllScheduledNotifications, RemoveAllDeliveredNotifications or ScheduleNotification. The function is private and I can't call manually.
The problem is that if the application is listening for the notifications (like RemoteNotification) with OnNotificationReceived and you don't call these functions. RegisterOnReceivedCallback is never called.

 

@_Paulius
Hi Paulius!!
how to get callback event click notification to open game??