{"id":4844,"date":"2023-03-30T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaurav.mobi\/create-persistent-notification-on-android-using-nativescript\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:22:01","slug":"create-persistent-notification-on-android-using-nativescript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/blog\/create-persistent-notification-on-android-using-nativescript\/","title":{"rendered":"Create persistent notification on Android using NativeScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I was experimenting with some background tasks in nativescript for android and I found that one way to ensure that your android app will always run even when it is in background is to use a persistent notification. So, I was able to create this using the following code:<\/p>\n<h3>NativeScript Code:<\/h3>\n<pre><code>main.js\nvar APP = require('application');\nvar utils = require(\"utils\/utils\");\nvar application = APP.android;\nexports.navigatingTo =  function (args) {\n    var page = args.object;\n\n    var randomCode = new java.util.Random().nextInt();\/\/to be used later to associate the 2 things\n        var intent = new android.content.Intent(application.foregroundActivity, com.tns.NativeScriptActivity.class);\n    var pendingIntent = android.app.PendingIntent.getActivity(application.foregroundActivity, randomCode, intent, android.content.Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);\n    var builder = new android.app.Notification.Builder(application.foregroundActivity);\n    builder.setDefaults(0);\n    builder.setContentTitle(\"NativeScript Running\");\n    builder.setContentText(\"This notification cannot be cleared\");\n    builder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent);\n    builder.setTicker(\"Persistent Notification\");\n    builder.setSmallIcon(application.nativeApp.getApplicationInfo().icon);\n    builder.setPriority(android.app.Notification.PRIORITY_HIGH);\n    builder.setOngoing(true);\/\/this tells the OS that the notification is persistant\n    var notification = builder.build();\n    var notificationManger = utils.ad.getApplicationContext().getSystemService(android.content.Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);\n    notificationManger.notify(randomCode, notification);\n};<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and voila, you have persistant notification. Ofcourse this can be better managed but now you know how to create a persistent notification. Enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was experimenting with some background tasks in nativescript for android and I found that one way to ensure that your android app will always run even when it is in background is to use a persistent notification. So, I was able to create this using the following code: NativeScript Code: main.js var APP = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaurav.mobi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}