ACR Notifications Plugin for Xamarin and Windows

Plugin for Easy Cross Platform notifications

Change Log - July 28, 2017

Features

• Local Notifications
• Scheduled Notifications
• Sounds
• Read all Scheduled Notifications
• Badges
• Set metadata on each notification for identification
• Cancel individual or all notifications

Supported OS

• iOS 6+
• macOS
• Android 4+
• Universal Windows Platform (Win10/UWP)
• NET Standard 1.0

Installation

Install the nuget package in your platform project as well as your netstandard library.

Send a notification

await CrossNotifications.Current.Send("My Title", "My message for the notification");

Send a scheduled notification:

await CrossNotifications.Current.Send("Happy Birthday", "I sent this a long time ago", when = TimeSpan.FromDays(50));

Get a list of scheduled notifications

var list = await CrossNotifications.Current.GetScheduledNotifications();

Cancel a specific notification

var id = await CrossNotifications.Current.Send("Hi", "This is my scheduled notification", when = TimeSpan.FromDays(1));
await CrossNotifications.Current.Cancel(id);

Cancel all scheduled notifications and clear badge:

CrossNotifications.Current.CancelAll();

To set a badge:

Setting badges works on all platforms, though only select flavours of Android. A 3rd party library is used to accomplish this.

await CrossNotifications.Current.SetBadge(4);
await CrossNotifications.Current.GetBadge();
// 0 clears badge

Sounds

In the notification.Sound property - set only the filename without the extension

Android

• Put the sound in your /Resources/raw/ folder - make sure the file properties is set to AndroidResource
• You can pass the actual full sound path OR just the name... the plugin will figure it out!

iOS

• Put the file in your iOS app bundle
• The file format must be a .caf file (google this to see how to make one) - ie. afconvert -f caff -d aacl@22050 -c 1 sound.aiff soundFileName.caf

UWP

• Supports aac, flac, m4a, mp3, wav, & wma file formats
• For desktop v1511, custom audio will not work. The plugin will ignore the sound config if it sees this.
• Read the following article for more info: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tiles_and_toasts/2016/06/18/quickstart-sending-a-toast-notification-with-custom-audio/

FAQ

• Why are most methods async now?

• iOS requires all UI based commands run on the UI thread. Notifications are part of UIKit and thus have this requirement. With all of my plugins, I try to manage the thread marshalling for you

• Why can't I set a string as an identifier

• Android needs an integer for how it sets identifiers