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Notification Access Android? How to use it?

I see that apps can request to have Notification Access which states that they can dismiss app notifcation and stuff like that. But what does that mean? Like how would one go about dismissing app notifications and stuff like that within your application.

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Nicolas Ruiz Avatar asked Jun 23 '17 04:06

Nicolas Ruiz


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I believe you are looking for the NotificationListenerService added in Android 4.3. With it you can listen to new notifications being posted, and manage them, including dismissing them. You can find the documentation here.

To dismiss a notification, for example, you would call the cancelNotification method, and provide it with the key, that you previously got from the getKey() method, of a notification. These notification objects can be obtained by calling the getActiveNotifications() method.

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Bernd Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 11:09

Bernd