dart - Flutter Notifications Panel

Question

I'm using with success the flutter local notification plugin. Now I'm struggling for create a page with all notifications.

Is there a way to collect all incoming local notifications of my app (even if dismissed and/or not clicked) in a list (the classic notification page like FB etc.)

I only notice that I can track the tapped notification but not only the arrival notification.

Thanks!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65858560/flutter-notifications-panel

Answer 1

This unfortunately is not possible, because notifications are not stored anywhere. They exist in memory on the device, until the user dismisses them, or they are replaced with a message of a similar ID, or the OS just removes them altogether.

Your best bet, is to generate a table on your mobile backend, that will store these notifications (the same ones that will be broadcasted to the users notification center), then get the app to read directly from this table, and store it on a local SQLite database.

These notifications that are broadcasted, will need to be sent from the backend itself, with the exact same content, as that being stored on the table I mentioned. This will ensure data integrity between the notification center, and that of the app.

[EDIT] Please make sure that you use FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging) for mobile push notifications. These are completely free, as per the documentation: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging

For Tutorials, please look at these:

1. https://medium.com/@jun.chenying/flutter-tutorial-part3-push-notification-with-firebase-cloud-messaging-fcm-2fbdd84d3a5e

2. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-add-push-notifications-to-flutter-app/