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Aaron Beall
Inspiring
July 9, 2013
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Can you update the notification bar without a push API?

  • July 9, 2013
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Is it possible to update the notification bar from an actively running app without using push APIs? I realize that some devices do not run apps in the background, or they run them in a suspended mode, but if the application is running is there a way to simply send a notification to the notification directly without using a roundabout push API?

Given the use case where I want to gently notify the user that the running application could use attention but I don't necessarily want to bother the user if the app isn't even open, using the notification bar seems like a solution. Is this a possible workflow?

-Aaron

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Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
July 9, 2013

You can do local notifications. Those don’t require a push server, and the notice should appear within a thousandth of a second of the time that you have set.

I suspect that the notification can only be set while the app is in the foreground, but the alert will appear at the specified time even if the app is closed.

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Aaron BeallAuthor
Inspiring
July 9, 2013

Thanks, that's great!

Is this something that there is an AIR API for, or do I need native code? Everything I'm finding on the AIR notification API seems to be geared towards push notifications... am I missing something?

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Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
July 9, 2013

You would need an ANE (AIR native extension). There are a few to choose from: https://www.google.com/search?q=anelocalnotification

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