# Package com.codename1.notifications

package com.codename1.notifications

Local Notification API

Local notifications are similar to push notifications, except that they are initiated locally by the app, rather than remotely. They are useful for communicating information to the user while the app is running in the background, since they manifest themselves as pop-up notifications on supported devices.

Sending Notifications

The process for sending a notification is:

- Create a `com.codename1.notifications.LocalNotification` object with the information you want to send in the notification.

- Pass the object to `com.codename1.ui.Display#scheduleLocalNotification(LocalNotification,long,int)`.

Notifications can either be set up as one-time only or as repeating.

Example Sending Notification

            `LocalNotification n = new LocalNotification();
            n.setId("demo-notification");
            n.setAlertBody("It's time to take a break and look at me");
            n.setAlertTitle("Break Time!");
            n.setAlertSound("/notification_sound_bells.mp3"); //file name must begin with notification_sound

            Display.getInstance().scheduleLocalNotification(
                    n,
                    System.currentTimeMillis() + 10 * 1000, // fire date/time
                    LocalNotification.REPEAT_MINUTE  // Whether to repeat and what frequency
            );`

The resulting notification will look like

The above screenshot was taken on the iOS simulator.

Receiving Notifications

The API for receiving/handling local notifications is also similar to push. Your application's main lifecycle class needs to implement the `com.codename1.notifications.LocalNotificationCallback` interface which includes a single method: `com.codename1.notifications.LocalNotificationCallback#notificationReceived(String)`

The notificationId parameter will match the id value of the notification as set using `com.codename1.notifications.LocalNotification#setId(String)`.

Example Receiving Notification

            `public class BackgroundLocationDemo implements LocalNotificationCallback {
                //...

                public void init(Object context) {
                    //...`

                public void start() {
                    //...

                }

                public void stop() {
                    //...
                }

                public void destroy() {
                    //...
                }

                public void localNotificationReceived(String notificationId) {
                    System.out.println("Received local notification "+notificationId);
                }
            }
           }

NOTE: `com.codename1.notifications.LocalNotificationCallback#localNotificationReceived(String)` is only called when the user responds to the notification by tapping on the alert. If the user doesn't opt to click on the notification, then this event handler will never be fired.

Cancelling Notifications

Repeating notifications will continue until they are canceled by the app. You can cancel a single notification by calling `com.codename1.ui.Display#cancelLocalNotification(String)`

Where notificationId is the string id that was set for the notification using `com.codename1.notifications.LocalNotification#setId(String)`.

Sample App

You can see a full sample that uses the new local notifications API here.

- Class
  Description
  LocalNotification
  Local notifications are user notifications that are scheduled by the app itself.
  LocalNotificationCallback
  An interface that can be implemented by the application's main class (i.e. the class with `start()`, `stop()` etc..) to respond to local notifications. This interface only works when it is implemented by the main class. It will never be called otherwise.