Native Plugin Local notifications alternatives

Ionic Native
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I am looking into the Local Notification native plugin as I need such functionality. But the plugin seems incompatible with >= Android 8 according to description and last commit is 4 months ago and author seems not responding on issues since quite a while.

Does somebody know any working alternative? I don’t even need so many features the plugin has. All I need is a possibility to schedule local notifications with simple text which can be tapped on and the app opens. Only thing I need additionally is support for re-occuring events every day…

Any good alternatives?

P.s.: Also the ionic native wrapper is incompatible with latest plugin version in some places, but until now I was able to just surpress some typescript errors in my test which made it work (at least on my device).

P.s. 2: I was until now not able to make the app open once the notification is tapped…

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Hm nobody using local notifications in his app?

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I’ll jump in as I’m looking to move away from that plugin. It basically causes more issues for my app than its worth. Works well for Android 7 and below. It does work for android 8 and 8.1 but has a huge amount of force closes and crash reports on Android Console… Don’t pick this one https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications

I’m looking for an alternative for this. I have a simple reminder which has worked well with this plugin for years, but it doesn’t support Android => 8, it’ll cause you headaches with crashes.

If anyone know’s a good way to send push notices or a better local notification plugin, I’m using Parse, please let me know.

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Hi @jasonandress

any update what to use for local notification for 8.0,8.1,9.0 i am using cordova-plugin-local-notifications can i know any other option

thanks&regards,
Abhisheker varma

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I’m actually still using that plugin. Check the issue I started in the github repo for the fix. Making those changes resolved the crashes for Android >8.

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May you share the link to the fix? I couldn’t find it on github. Thanks a lot.

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Here’s the issue i had. This plugin has the AssetProvider as {applicationId}.provider as well as another one of my plugins FileProvider as {applicationId}.provider. That caused the crashes.

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