Create an Android notification with expiration date

Question

I would like to create a notification in Android that has an expiration date, meaning that on a certain date, if it's not open, it will be automatically destroyed or removed. Is this possible? Does someone knows how to do this?

Thanks for your help.

you can do with running a background service with alarmmanager to remove the notification using the notification id — Vishnu Prabhu, May 26 '14 at 16:27
Any service can remove notification of any app just by having its notification id? — SebastianT, May 26 '14 at 16:33

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 11 '18 at 09:24

You can remove your own app's notifications if you have the notification ID by calling NotificationManager.cancel. To implement the expiration, you can set an alarm with AlarmManager to wake up a BroadcastReceiver that will simply cancel the notification. (If the notification is no longer there, then the call to cancel will do nothing.)

// post notification
notificationManager.notify(id, notification);

// set up alarm
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
Intent intent = new Intent(context, MyBroadcastReceiver.class);
intent.setAction("com.your.package.action.CANCEL_NOTIFICATION");
intent.putExtra("notification_id", id);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

// note: starting with KitKat, use setExact if you need exact timing
alarmManager.set(..., pi);

In your BroadcastRecevier...

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    final String action = intent.getAction();
    if ("com.your.package.action.CANCEL_NOTIFICATION".equals(action)) {
        int id = intent.getIntExtra("notification_id", -1);
        if (id != -1) {
            NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            notificationManager.cancel(id);
        }
    }
}

Why would it not work? You may have to work out some of the finer details, but this general approach should work. — Karakuri, May 26 '14 at 17:42

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 02 '19 at 11:01

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.Builder.html#setTimeoutAfter(long)

you can specify a duration in milliseconds after which this notification should be canceled, if it is not already canceled.

from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56072643/969016

Create an Android notification with expiration date

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