v1.60 (stable)

v1.60.8

What’s New

Feature	Description
Service communication	Notification buttons can now communicate with services
Permission handling	Improved behavior when requesting notification permission
Flet support	Beta support for Flet Python apps
without-androidx branch	Fallback branch for environments without ability to add Gradle dependencies
Logging	Improved logging with log levels

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Class: Notification

Methods

Method	Description
setSound	Change the default notification sound
setSubText	Add small text near the title (e.g. download time remaining)
setColor	Set app icon color using a hex color code
channelExists(channel_id)	Check if a notification channel exists
doChannelsExist()	Accepts a list of channel IDs and returns those that do not exist
setWhen(secs)	Change the time the notification was created
setVibrate(pattern)	For devices below Android 8; defaults to a single vibration
fVibrate	Force vibration even if disabled in system notification settings
setData(data_object)	Attach a dictionary of extra data to the notification

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New Arguments

Argument	Description
addButton	receiver_name and action (both default to None)
createChannel	vibrate flag (defaults to false) and res_sound_name uses default sysytem sound
setBigText	title and summary parameters

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Properties

Property	Description
title_color	Beta support for setting notification title color
message_color	Beta support for setting notification message color

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Class: NotificationHandler

Methods

Method	Description
asks_permission	Opens notification settings if the user previously selected “Don’t allow” and Android can no longer show the permission dialog

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Properties

Property	Description
data_object	Access data added via Notification.setData

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New Arguments

Argument	Description
get_name	on_start must be True when called from App.on_start()

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Flet Apps

Status	Notes
Partial support	All features work except actions (clicks only opens the app)

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Other

Change	Description
Version check	Added command-line argument to check library version
Tests	Added a folder containing comprehensive tests

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What’s Changed

Fix	Description
core.py styles	Fixed style implementation

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