Remove Notification about geofence_service

[Dev-hwang]

A foreground service is required to track background location on the Android platform. The notification serves to notify the user that the foreground service has started.

So, if you want to remove the notification, you don't need to use the WillStartForegroundTask widget. However, it may not be able to track your location in the background.

[hrtzzz11]

Alright, understand. And what about those two notifications? The upper one is created with an other plugin. The one below is the one from WillStartForegroundTask() (see code below). Is this lower one even visible when the user got the app on a real device (because that's how I want it)?

home: WillStartForegroundTask(
onWillStart: () async {
// You can add a foreground task start condition.
return _geofenceService.isRunningService;
},
androidNotificationOptions: const AndroidNotificationOptions(
channelId: 'geofence_service_notification_channel',
channelName: 'Geofence Service Notification',
channelDescription:
'This notification appears when the geofence service is running in the background.',
channelImportance: NotificationChannelImportance.NONE,
priority: NotificationPriority.MIN,
isSticky: false,
visibility: NotificationVisibility.VISIBILITY_SECRET,
showWhen: false,
),
iosNotificationOptions:
const IOSNotificationOptions(showNotification: false),
notificationTitle: 'xxx',
notificationText: 'yyy',
child: Scaffold(.........

[Dev-hwang]

A notification must be created to start a foreground service. A foreground service is also called a service that is visible to the user. So, just because a channel is of low importance cannot hide a notification.

[Dev-hwang]

I don't speak English well, so I didn't understand what the question was. It would be helpful to answer if you could explain a little more.

[hrtzzz11]

Yes, no problem, thank you for taking your time :-)

I don’t want the user to get notifications when the foreground task (method willStartForegroundTask)
() ) is called. Therefore, i set (for iOS) iosNotificationOptions:
const IOSNotificationOptions(showNotification: false) and now the notification of this method isn’t shown on iOS

For Android, i want to do the same but there isn’t a similar boolean like „showNotification“ and i can’t set androidNotificationOptions: null because then the app crashes. That’s why i set IMPORTANCE_NONE, but the notification is still there (see the picture, it it the lower notification with grey icon), and somehow you can’t delete this notification on the simulator.

So two questions:

1. Is it possible to not show the Android notification (like the iOS notification with the boolean showNotification)?
2. Will the notification on a real device be shown, when it’s set IMPORTANCE_NONE?

[Dev-hwang]

1. No. The notification could not be removed. To start the foreground service according to the Android platform's policy, must create a notification.

2. For the same reason as above, the notification appears even if the notification importance is set to 'NONE' or 'LOW'. Also, users cannot remove notifications.

[hrtzzz11]

Aight thank u! :)