In this Notes article, I roughly jotted down notes in English from the content of the English session video/podcast. This article is intended to be read as a reference while watching the video. I hope this article helps you even a little when you watch the actual video. (Please feel free to contact me if there are any errors or typos! m(__)m)

This article is based on Modern Android Notifications (Android Dev Summit ‘18).

• Respect user’s settings
• Send well-structured notification
• Send relevant and timely notification
• Make use of Auto-cancelling
• Make use of Timeouts
• No notifications that are not actionable

Notification Channels

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• Used to empower users
• Help user categorize the notification
• Help user customize the setting

Tips

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• Don’t use only one channel
• Don’t use wrong/blocked channel

What’s new in Notifications

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• API 28: New person class

// create new Person
val sender = Person.Builder().setName(name)
  .setUri(uri)
  .setIcon(icon)
  .build()

// create message with image
val message = Notification.MessagingStyle.Message("Picture", time, sender)
  .setData("image/", imageUri)

val style = Notification.MessagingStyle(sender)
  .addMessage("Check this out!", time, sender)
  .addMessage(message)
  .build()
...

val builder = Notification.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
  .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon)
  .setStyle(style) 

Tips

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• Do not auto-cancel messaging notification after sending
  • Let user swipe the notification when they finish their conversation

Digital Wellbeing

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• Overview of app usage
• Dashboard for notification received, time spending on apps
• To manage notifications, reduce interruptions

How are notifications counted?

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=> If notifications were sent to blocked channel they are not counted, otherwise counted.

Reduce interruptions

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• Empower user

Work with Do not Disturb

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• Set category
• Tag people
  • Add person
  • Set the URI associated with the person

Summary

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Don’t annoy the user. Respect them. Empower them. Delight them. Connect them to the people they care about.