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Smooch ConversationActivity, how can I know when the activity was launched?

I have implemented smooch. https://smooch.io/
And my issue is that when I get the notification from smooch. If I'm in the background, I set a "unread messages" long that I use in my main activity on the smooch button.
The issue is that when I press on the notification, and the ConversationActivity is started from there. I need to set the unread messages to 0, because the ConversationActivity is opened. How can I know when this happens?
I cannot modify ConversationActivity.class from the smooch library.
I thought about making the notification myself, and changing the smooch created one with this one using this code:
private static void generateNotificationSmooch(final Context context, String title, String message) {
if (title == null)
title = context.getString(R.string.passenger_name);
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, ConversationActivity.class);
notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
int iUniqueId = (int) (System.currentTimeMillis() & 0xfffffff);
PendingIntent intent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, iUniqueId, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context);
mBuilder.setContentTitle(title).setContentText(message).setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon);
mBuilder.setContentIntent(intent);
Notification notification = mBuilder.build();
notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify(0, notification);
}
But I need to set the unread to 0 when the notification is pressed, and not when I create the notification. And I can't put it in pending intent

You have a few options.
Use the onSmoochShown delegate callback.
This callback will be triggered when the conversation is shown, so you will be able to update your unread count.
Use the onUnreadCountChanged delegate callback
.
This delegate will be called whenever the unread count changes for current user. You can use this callback to update your long accordingly.
Since you will need to be listening to these delegate callbacks when a notification is tapped, it may be best to set your delegate in your Application’s onCreate, after you initialize Smooch.

Transaction to a specific fragment if we receive a push notification while app is running

Is it possible not launch new activity if we receive a push notification while the app is running?
My activity works with fragments and I want to do transition to a determinate fragment when the notification is received. My activity have data that I need to show the fragments. The problem is that when I receive the push notification while the app is running the method onDestroy is called and here I clear the data and then the app crash because the data are null. How can I do to not create new activity when the app receive a push notification while is running? In case the app is running I want that if you click the notification do a transition fragment, not create again the activity.
Thanks in advance.

First of all, I think that you mean "notification" to be a "message", but not android.app.Notification class.
And second, I don't think it's a best practise to raise new GUI when receiving a message, which would interrupt the user interaction. For details, please refer to: http://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/index.html and http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html.
At last, if you really wanna do what you stated in your thread, I wonder why the data used to generate the show-data fragment is held in the activity. Try holding the data in an android.app.IntentService object, and then generate transfer the data to new activity, and then use android.app.Fragment.setArguments method to transfer the data from activity to fragment.

I think that this code will help you. This which you need is PendingIntent, it make transaction to desired activity.
/**
* Issues a notification to inform the user that server has sent a message.
*/
private static void generateNotification(Context context, String title,
String message) {
//get the default notification sound URI
Uri uriNotificationSound = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
//make intent to the application. if the application is opened just maximize it.
Intent homeIntent = new Intent(context, 'your desired activity');
homeIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT);
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0,
homeIntent, 0);
NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder =
new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher)
.setContentTitle("eCommCongress")
.setContentText(message)
.setLights(Color.GREEN, 1500, 1500)
.setSound(uriNotificationSound)
.setAutoCancel(true)
.setContentIntent(contentIntent);
NotificationManager mNotificationManager =
(NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
// mId allows you to update the notification later on.
mNotificationManager.notify(counter, mBuilder.build());
counter++;
}

It is perfectly possible and I do such a thing in one of my apps. First, you need to declare your activity as android:launchMode="singleTop",
Then, when you build you must configure your pending intent not to fire a new instance of your activity:
mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager)
this.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
Intent intent = new Intent("YOUR ACTION HERE");
intent.setClassName(this, MainActivity.class.getName());
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
PendingIntent resultPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(getApplicationContext(), 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
mBuilder.setContentIntent(resultPendingIntent);
Notification notification = mBuilder.build();
notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_VIBRATE | Notification.DEFAULT_LIGHTS;
notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_SHOW_LIGHTS | Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
mNotificationManager.notify(idNotificacion,notification);
Now all you have to do is to override your onNewIntent inside your Activity and do whatever you want with your fragment:
#Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
MiLog.i(getApplicationContext(),"IntentShit","new intent received");
MiLog.i(getApplicationContext(),"IntentShit","Action: "+intent.getAction());
if(intent.getAction()!=null && intent.getAction().equals("YOUR ACTION HERE"){
//DO your stuff here
}
}
You should also take a look at this page for more info:
http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/6/16/android-understanding-activity-launchmode

android - notifications without alerting the user

I currently have an ongoing notification that displays some information about my app. While this information is useful, there's no need for the user to actually see that I've created the notification. Its basically there to tell them that "hey, my app is doing stuff in the background, click here to go back to it".
My notification works correctly, however whenever I call ".notify()" my notification shows the text from my notification in the notification bar at the top of the screen, like a text message does.
I want to to do it silently, so when I call notify it doesn't show my notifications text in the small notification bar before doing the "roll up" animation.
Context context = getApplicationContext();
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, AudioPlayer.class);
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
notificationIntent, 0);
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.ic_launcher,
title, System.currentTimeMillis());
RemoteViews contentView = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(),
R.layout.note_layout);
~~~ remote views stuff ~~~
contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.notification_title, title);
contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.notification_text, author);
notification.contentView = contentView;
notification.contentIntent = contentIntent;
notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
mNotificationManager.notify(8675309, notification);

I'm not sure that the OS allow that.
What you want to hide is called Ticker.
You can try to set an empty Ticker Text:
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.ic_launcher,
"", System.currentTimeMillis());

what to code for notification to stick until music stop playing

I want notification which will stick on notification bar until music stop playing it.
currently i have written some code in which i can show notification but when i press clear notification button or swap it than it disappear from notification center.
I want notification like spotify which stays on bar until you stop playing music.
Here is my code for notification
int pendingRequestCode = 0;
// final Resources res = getResources();
notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(
NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),Mainactivity.class);
Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(this)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search)
.setAutoCancel(true)
.setTicker("test ckick")
.setContentIntent(PendingIntent.getActivity(getApplicationContext(), NOTIFICATION_DEFAULT, i,0));
// Sets a custom content view for the notification, including an image button.
layout = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.notification);
layout.setTextViewText(R.id.notification_title, getString(R.string.app_name));
Intent clickIntent = new Intent();
clickIntent.setAction(ACTION_DIALOG);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), pendingRequestCode, clickIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
layout.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.notification_button,pendingIntent);
builder.setContent(layout);
// Notifications in Android 3.0 now have a standard mechanism for displaying large
// bitmaps such as contact avatars. Here, we load an example image and resize it to the
// appropriate size for large bitmaps in notifications.
layout.setImageViewResource(R.id.notification_button, R.drawable.pause);
notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_DEFAULT, builder.getNotification());
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Use setOngoing(true) to indicate that the event is ongoing. You may also wish to remove setAutoCancel(true), as that clears the Notification when the user taps upon it.

notification.flags = Notification.DEFAULT_LIGHTS | Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL

Send multiple notifications androidle

I am trying to recieve multiple notifications on my mobile.But each time i send the notification.The previous notification gets overwritten by the new one.I watched the other questions where they said to have multiple Id's for notifications I am doing that also but I don't know where I am going wrong.
Here's how I create my notification.(It is being created in a service).
private void GenerateNotification(String data)
{
String ns=Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE;
manager=(NotificationManager) getSystemService(ns);
int icon=R.drawable.ic_launcher;
long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
Notification notification = new Notification(icon, data, when);
notification.flags |=Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND;
Context context = getApplicationContext();
CharSequence contentTitle = "The Best Essay";
CharSequence contentText = data;
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this,MainActivity.class);
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, 0);
notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, contentTitle, contentText, contentIntent);
manager.notify(HELLO_ID, notification);
HELLO_ID++;
}
Where HelloID increments to recieve multiple notifications with unique id's.Please tell me where I am doing wrong.

So the issue is that the intent you're using is the same each time. If you try to notify the user using an Intent that is the same as one used in a notification that is already being displayed, android considers them duplicates. This is because each notification when clicked will end up doing the exact same thing (so android is like "why do I need to display two of these?").
The thing to do is say "hey, am I already displaying a notification? If so, I'm going to create a new notification that will override the current one, but convey the fact that there are actually two things that I'm notifying about". Consider the text messaging application. When you get a second unread text message, it overrides the first notification about the original text message and replaces it with a notification tell you that you have two new text messages. Make sense?