element-hq
Notifications and unread messages are not in sync
Steps to reproduce
- Check unread messages in EXA
- Check unread messages in Android notifications
Outcome
What did you expect?
The same messages are shown or notified. If I read a message in EXA, the corresponding android notification should be retracted.
What happened instead?
The displayed messages and notifications are inconsistent. As a user, I constantly feel there still is something to read in EXA even though there is not.
Your phone model
Pixel 5
Operating system version
Android 14
Application version and app store
0.4.16-nightly
Homeserver
No response
Will you send logs?
No
Are you willing to provide a PR?
No
If I read a message in EXA, the corresponding android notification should be retracted.
If you read a room from EXA, the corresponding notification should disappear. I have just checked and it's working as expected.
If you read the messages from another session, the notification will not disappear and this is tracked by #1998.
Also, if you dismiss the notification, it will not mark the room as read.
So if there is no other issue than #1998 I think we can close this one?
As the screens above show, this is about the same session, i.e. notifications from EXA and reading the messages in EXA.
Just to confirm: are you using the action "Mark as read"? In this case, the notifications for the room are not removed, and I will fix that.
What do you mean with "mark as read"?
I simply look at the notifications in Android and then the unread messages in EXA and this doesn't really align. If I read some messages in EXA, their notifications don't necessarily get taken out of Android. Some notifications in Android don't have corresponding unreads in EXA. It feels like to different things.
I think this is a symptom of https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/issues/1998.
I am also intermittently experiencing this behavior, where opening a room from the room list on Element X does not dismiss the android notifications (also from Element X) for that room.
