notifications

Last time I wrote about notification channels I described a complicated solution to create the best balance between automatic bundling vs. not annoying the daylights out of the user: Have as few channels as possible make noise by default. Use summaries on the channels

Google has introduced notification channels to Android Oreo. Each notification is now associated with a channel, and the user is granted control over how each channel presents notifications. For developers, channels are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is great that users

Bundled notifications on Android are a tricky business. Individual, fire-and-forget notifications are simple. You create a Notification, send it to NotificationManagerCompat, and the system handles the rest. Bundled notifications allow you to group multiple notifications together and present them as a single summary notification.