Unable to dismiss the enable notification banner

[ttsgeb]

I understand the value of the stop notification, but I have no desire to allow notifications for this app. I love how it behaves without them, and I hate notifications. I would like to be able to dismiss the reminder banner, or toggle it in the settings.

This is a minor issue, but I enjoyed that it did nothing to get my attention before the most recent update.

[pmarks-net]

Ok, I'm considering adding an option to permanently hide the button, but I want to make sure we're on the same page first.

When I wrote ChromaDoze in 2010, Android required background services to post a notification, to make users aware that code is still running. I used that notification to make the app easy to stop. A few years ago they inverted the rule, so background services can't post a notification without permission. I found this decision odd.

I'm curious, do you run ChromaDoze at night, or in the background while using your phone? Are you aware that you can click ■ on the notification to kill the app immediately? You'd rather see nothing while it's running, and just open the app to make it stop?

[ttsgeb]

My use typically consists of starting the app, "closing it", going to sleep, and force closing the app when I wake up. I just don't like notifications, and I don't like messages that can't be dismissed. In this case, it's a pretty minor thing, but I figured I could at least say something.

So, yeah, my use case is that the only way I want to know that the app is running is that I hear the noise.

[serenity042]

I don't understand this request. Android allows to disable any notification you want. I can disable chromaDoze notification by long pressing it and uncheck "stop button". I feel as this is the standard way of managing notifications since a few Android versions, making it an option would be redundant.

@ttsgeb, can you explain how this standard way of doing it does not work for you?

[pmarks-net]

@serenity042, that's an interesting observation. The button in ChromaDoze says "Please enable the ■ notification" but it fundamentally means "Please enable notification permission so the ■ feature can work".

If you enable "All ChromaDoze notifications" permission and then disable "Stop button", the notification is hidden without showing the banner.

So the feature @ttsgeb wants technically exists, but it's not obvious. I wonder if there's a way to make this less confusing, without turning the 1-line banner into a paragraph.