Android Oreo Notifications - check if specific channel enabled

Question

Im using this snippet to check if notifications enabled:

NotificationManagerCompat.from(getContext()).areNotificationsEnabled()

however, if user disable only the channel, i cannot know about it.

Any idea?

Solution 1

with backwards compatibility:

public boolean isNotificationChannelEnabled(Context context, @Nullable String channelId){
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(channelId)) {
                NotificationManager manager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
                NotificationChannel channel = manager.getNotificationChannel(channelId);
                return channel.getImportance() != NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE;
            }
            return false;
        } else {
            return NotificationManagerCompat.from(context).areNotificationsEnabled();
        }
    }

Solution 2

Check out the docs here.

Users can modify the settings for notification channels, including behaviors such as vibration and alert sound. You can call the following two methods to discover the settings a user has applied to a notification channel:

To retrieve a single notification channel, you can call getNotificationChannel(). To retrieve all notification channels belonging to your app, you can call getNotificationChannels(). After you have the NotificationChannel, you can use methods such as getVibrationPattern() and getSound() to find out what settings the user currently has. To find out if a user blocked a notification channel, you can call getImportance(). If the notification channel is blocked, getImportance() returns IMPORTANCE_NONE.

Solution 3

Use this to check if either the notifications overall or the channels are disabled and bring the user to the corresponding settings:

In the calling method:

if (!notificationManager.areNotificationsEnabled()) {
        openNotificationSettings();
        return;
    }

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O &&
            isChannelBlocked(CHANNEL_1_ID)) {
        openChannelSettings(CHANNEL_1_ID);
        return;
    }

In your class:

private void openNotificationSettings() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_APP_NOTIFICATION_SETTINGS);
        intent.putExtra(Settings.EXTRA_APP_PACKAGE, getPackageName());
        startActivity(intent);
    } else {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
        intent.setData(Uri.parse("package:" + getPackageName()));
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

@RequiresApi(26)
private boolean isChannelBlocked(String channelId) {
    NotificationManager manager = getSystemService(NotificationManager.class);
    NotificationChannel channel = manager.getNotificationChannel(channelId);

    return channel != null &&
            channel.getImportance() == NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE;
}

@RequiresApi(26)
private void openChannelSettings(String channelId) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_CHANNEL_NOTIFICATION_SETTINGS);
    intent.putExtra(Settings.EXTRA_APP_PACKAGE, getPackageName());
    intent.putExtra(Settings.EXTRA_CHANNEL_ID, channelId);
    startActivity(intent);
}

Solution 4

I think example by @itzhar have one flaw: when user completely disabled notifications in app, we can get false positive (when channel itself wasn't disabled).

Updated code (in Kotlin) can look like:

fun isNotificationAllowed(context: Context): Boolean {
    return if (isOOrLater()) {
        areNotificationsEnabled(context) and isChannelDisabled(context)
    } else {
        areNotificationsEnabled(context)
    }
}

private fun areNotificationsEnabled(context: Context) =
    NotificationManagerCompat.from(context).areNotificationsEnabled()

@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.O)
private fun isChannelDisabled(context: Context): Boolean{
    val notificationManager = context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE) as NotificationManager
    val channel = notificationManager.getNotificationChannel(NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID)
    return channel.importance != NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE
}

private fun isOOrLater() = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O

Solution 5

This method can help :

public boolean isNotificationChannelDisabled(@NonNull String channelId) {
        if(!channelId.equals(EMPTY)) {
            NotificationChannel channel = getManager().getNotificationChannel(channelId);
            return channel.getImportance() == NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE;
        }

        return false;
    }

private NotificationManager getManager(@NonNull Context context) {
        return mManager(android.app.NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    }

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