Android 4.1 offers the user a check box to disable notifications for a specific application.
However, as a developer we have no way to know whether a call to notify was effective or not.
I really need to check if the notifications are disabled for the current application but I can't find any setting for that in the API.
Is there ever a way to check this setting in the code?
I use this method to check whether the notifications are enabled or not, the above-mentioned methods will work for checking whether notifications enabled or not. But from Android 8 onwards for creating notifications we have to create a channel first, so from Oreo, we have to check for your notification channel enabled or not.
/**
* Checking Whether notifications are enabled or not
* @return true if notifications are enabled otherwise false
*/
public static final String CHANNEL_ID = "your_channel_id";
private boolean isNotificationChannelEnabled(){
if(NotificationManagerCompat.from(this).areNotificationsEnabled()) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
NotificationManager manager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
NotificationChannel channel = manager.getNotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID);
if (channel == null)
return true; //channel is not yet created so return boolean
// by only checking whether notifications enabled or not
return channel.getImportance() != NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}