New notifications api

_psx_ said:

I've not checked it yet, but without alerts (sound or/same vibrations) it isn't too useful.

I just tried the Notifications sample on a real device (fr955).

- there's no sound or vibes

- the native notifications system is not used (CIQ notifications don't appear in the notifications glance)

- user can't go back and see old CIQ notifications

- sendNotification() has the following option:

:dismissPrevious — (Lang.Boolean) —

If true, dismiss all prior notifications that the app has posted. Note that this defaults to true if not provided.

This implies that there is some sort of notification queue for each app (for notifications which have not yet been viewed). However, I don't think there is a way for the user to manage this queue (although I haven't tested sending multiple notifications yet.)

- notifications can indeed be sent from either the foreground process or the background process (haven't tried sending a notification from a device app that's "running in the background", as I would have to create or modify a different app to do that)

- background notifications are delivered immediately

- a CIQ notification takes up the entire screen and looks similar to a native notification, although CIQ notifications only support an icon + text (no images)

- when a notification is displayed, there's a little animation where the icon and the title pop up from the bottom of the screen, displayed in a large size so they initially take up the entire screen. A split second later, the icon and title shrink and move up, as the body text pops up from the bottom of the screen

- I don't know if this is a bug, but the subtitle is not displayed at all

- if the body text is too large to fit in the screen, the notification can be scrolled

- if you press the START button, an action menu pops up with all the actions specified in sendNotification(), as well as a generic Dismiss action

- pressing BACK or swiping left dismisses the notification

- enabling do not disturb mode does not prevent foreground notifications from being shown (idk about background notifications)

- there doesn't seem to be a limit on how often foreground notifications can be triggered. (then again, I only tested by triggering them via user action - a button press. It's possible that CIQ is smart about this and rate limits notifications that are triggered without user intervention, idk.)

Maybe some of these things will change in the future, idk