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Vikram Kakkar

We have successfully implemented handling for push notifications using the APIs offered by UA Android SDK. Key components of the implementation include the NotificationProvider & NotificationListener which simplify the process greatly.

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One of the actions (implemented using ActionsNotificationExtender) needs to perform a network call & post a notification - this notification is not based on push and falls outside the usual push notification flow. Is there a way to make this notification go through the SDK flow - have the NotificationProvider create the notification content & get NotificationListener to receive callbacks?

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    Brian G

    We are not quite sure we fully understand the use case here. Are you attempting to create a Local Notification or something different?

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    Vikram Kakkar

    That's correct, we're looking to create a local notification. Here's a bit more context:

    - we receive a push notification that goes through NotificationProvider and posts a notification with an action that can 'mute' alerts for a given event

    - when this action is invoked, we need to display a local notification that can 'unmute' notifications for the associated event

    The way we have this setup at the moment is:

    - action to 'mute' event alerts is sent to a BroadcastReceiver that does a server call to mute alerts, and creates a notification with 'unmute' action

    - the action to 'unmute' alerts also triggers this BroadcastReceiver, makes a server call, and cancels the 'unmute' notification.

    Our concern is that these two flows have to be implemented separately, even though there's overlapping functionality. Is there currently a way for local notifications to go through the same flow as push notifications? 

    - to have them built through NotificationProvider

    - to have their actions invoke NotificationListener#onNotificationForegroundAction()/onNotificationBackgroundAction()

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