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Hide "No device" notification
Hi there! I would like to hide the notification of "No device" since it's pretty useless and spams the space on among notifications.
The trouble is that if I hide it with Android (12) settings, I'll hide the notification when pods are connected as well.
I guess that this notification is essential for the app staying in background to monitor BLE status.
So my suggestion is to divide notifications:
- to stay in background
- to show the info about pods (a.k.a. Device status)
The 2nd one will appear only when the pods are connected. While another one could be hidden via basic android tools. Seems like a win-win strategy.
What do you think?
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The 2nd one will appear only when the pods are connected. While another one could be hidden via basic android tools. Seems like a win-win strategy.
What do you think?
Won't this only be obvious to "power-users", and casual users will be annoyed by the 2 notifications, not understanding that they have to disable one?
@d4rken Guess you can always add a small instruction or a Notification subfolder in settings.
OR You can keep the default thing as is now, and add the functionality to split notifications. This will keep the newbies out of annoying trouble while providing mature users with the flexibility and customizability.
After all, I think those users who care about OSS or know about Fdroid, they pretty sure know how to hide notifications (:
I'm in favor of this feature, just not super important to my personal use-cases, so rather low priority for my time allocation :beers:.
I have also thought about whether we could create a channel that is deactivated by default, but I don't think it's possible :thinking: Making it optional would be a solution. Do you know any other apps that have some nice patterns for this that users understand well? Could we just write in the keep-alive notification that it can be deactivated? Can we put a button in the notification to disable it? Hmm :thinking:
We keep the current channel:
https://github.com/d4rken-org/capod/blob/753d31159358914fbbd2228b6274d993f4466900/app/src/main/java/eu/darken/capod/monitor/ui/MonitorNotifications.kt#L99-L100
and introduce a new one... then swap the setForeground argument...
https://github.com/d4rken-org/capod/blob/753d31159358914fbbd2228b6274d993f4466900/app/src/main/java/eu/darken/capod/monitor/core/worker/MonitorWorker.kt#L90-L103
@d4rken > Do you know any other apps that have some nice patterns for this that users understand well? Well I don't know any apps helping user to hide the notification :( But I know lots of apps having this work model through notification in background: Syncthing, Gadjetbridge, Shadowsocks FOSS I'll reach you out if find a good example.
> Could we just write in the keep-alive notification that it can be deactivated? I think it's better to say it can be hidden. Not sure deactivate the notification is a good idea.
> Can we put a button in the notification to disable it? Hmm 🤔 It seems like it's possible. At least on firefox can tap the notification to remove all the private windows.
Not sure I can help you with java code. Some apps have many notification channels but usually use several or one.
Talking about mechanics, you can keep things as is for default version, but if a settings is turned on: the pods status when connected goes to another notification. Thus, the major background notification can be hidden without losses on status of online/connectef pods.
And it also can be used by default as a single notification for background support and device status.
@d4rken Hello again,
I found that Gadgetbridge has it's General notification channel (to keep the app alive) as well as some other ones, for example to notify on low battery.
It seems like a similar case to our issue, check it up :) ! Gadgetbridge notifications screenshot
Any update on this? I really would like to have this, Thanks, amazing app
