Android wrong notification time

[RobertBrunhage]

So this works correctly on IOS but not on Android. The problem is that when I've used a one-time notification that will fire in, for example, 20h. When the notification pops up it says that notification came 20h ago and not now.

To clarify. I set a notification in 20h. When 20h has gone by and the notification appears it says 20h on the notification (the time when the notification appeared). On IOS, however, it displays it normally so it won't say 20h but more like 1 min etc

[MaikuB]

So the notification appears at the right time but the OS/notification reports the incorrect time on when the notification occurred?

Also just to confirm its the schedule method you're calling right?

[icavanaugh95]

I was about to bring this up too. I have the same issue it is when I try to use the schedule method. Even with your example the notification displays the incorrect time but it does occur at the correct time.

[RobertBrunhage]

@MaikuB Yes exactly!

These notifications came up like 1 - 2h ago but show the time when I scheduled them.

[MaikuB]

Yep was able to repro. Looks like it's due to the fact the notification got built before it got scheduled so I'll have to change the process so that it's only built right before displaying it. It's a relatively easy fix that will only apply for notifications that get scheduled in the next release. This would make it easier to fix issues going forward as not many details of the Notification class can be modified and Google has had history of deprecating fields that they are set via the builder.

For notifications that had already been scheduled I'll add code to modify the Notification object so the correct time information is displayed via this field but I'll eventually do another release to remove that logic.

[RobertBrunhage]

Sweet, when do you think this will be fixed and pushed?

[MaikuB]

Should be up now. Looks like my PR automatically closed the issue but I've reopened it, try it out and let me know how it goes

[RobertBrunhage]

Will the code be used like before or does something need to be added to this:

DateTime scheduledNotificationDateTime =
    new DateTime.now().add(new Duration(seconds: secondsLeft));

    var androidPlatformChannelSpecifics = new AndroidNotificationDetails(
        'your other channel id',
        'your other channel name',
        'your other channel description',
        icon: 'secondary_icon',
        largeIconBitmapSource: BitmapSource.Drawable,
        color: const Color.fromARGB(255, 255, 0, 0));
    var iOSPlatformChannelSpecifics =
    new IOSNotificationDetails();
    var platformChannelSpecifics = new NotificationDetails(
        androidPlatformChannelSpecifics, iOSPlatformChannelSpecifics);
    await flutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.schedule(
        id,
        title,
        description,
        scheduledNotificationDateTime,
        platformChannelSpecifics);

[MaikuB]

Code will work as before. It's just what happens behind the scenes that changed

[MaikuB]

Having said that, I'll eventually be exposing this that controls if that information is displayed. Google is changing the behaviour so displaying that information is opt-in now

[RobertBrunhage]

yeah, seem like it works for me now, thanks!

[MaikuB]

Sorry for resurrecting this older thread. I'm finally looking do what I mentioned where I'd remove the kludge put when I mentioned the following

For notifications that had already been scheduled I'll add code to modify the Notification object so the correct time information is displayed via this field but I'll eventually do another release to remove that logic.

I'm looking to do a beta release of the plugin so given how long ago this has been (i.e. before the plugin was more widely used), how hacky it is and how it can lead to making the plugin more difficult to maintain, I wanted to give a heads up on my intentions should anyone have feedback on that