Flutter Awesome Notification is a pop-up message that alerts Android/iOS users about what’s new in the application. Also shows the offers, discounted prices and much more.
It is a great marketing plugin because it helps you to stay connected with users.
Flutter Awesome Notification Plugin is a simple way to implement push notifications and local notifications. In flutter applications, Android and iOS are using firebase cloud messaging or any other services.
Because of all these benefits and features, we are going to implement them in our flutter application.
The process to show Awesome notifications:
flutter pub get
import ‘package:awesome_notifications/awesome_notifications.dart’;
While using the app in background, notifications are sent successfully by firebase_messaging plugin but you’re not able to handle messages using the background message handler. You will get the following error:
MissingPluginException(No implementation found for method createNewNotification on channel awesome_notifications)
To handle Awesome Notification in background using firebase messaging, register Firebase Messaging Plugin and Awesome Notifications Plugin inside Plugin Registry inside My Application.javaÂ
//Inside register with method add following lines:
//Make sure to import:
Awesome Notifications is not working on android release mode with custom icon and sound.
You can achieve this in two ways:
1. Set shrink resources to false inside build.gradle file.
2. Inside android/app/src/main/res/raw/ create keep.xml and add following lines as per documentation:
Awesome notification plugin is extremely useful to create custom notifications in a flutter. It can be implemented very fast and without an internet connection. Users can schedule notifications repeatedly. It is a very powerful plugin to handle background events created by actions buttons and improve the user interface. If User is making social media apps or any productivity apps in flutter then they should use awesome notifications.
1. What is an awesome notification used for?
Awesome notification is a cross platform plugin for displaying push notifications and messages sent through mobile app or server to user device to keep users informed.
2. Can users send push notifications without the Flutter app?
Yes.User can send push notifications by http post request using firebase cloud messaging or any other services.
3. How does awesome notifications help in social media applications or any other applications?
Big picture notification feature provides better experience for users to identify content behind the notification and action buttons allowing users to send commands without bringing the application to the foreground.
4. What are the advantages of awesome notifications in flutter apps?
Awesome notifications are not only used to customize push notifications but also create a stronger app experience. Here is the list of advantages:
Jitendra Mistry is a Flutter and Android Developer at OneClick IT Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. Having 1.5 years of experience in a Flutter. He contributed to stack-overflow for JavaScript, core Java and Dart language. Also, developing user-friendly and intuitive cross-platform applications for tablet, web and mobile.