Can I send a local silent notification from a Widget?

Asked Jun 30 '17 at 13:19

Active Jun 30 '17 at 13:35

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I would like to pass some data from a Widget to an app, where I have some limitations:

The WidgetProvider needs to start a service, which will process the intent
When the MainActivity is in the background it works well
The service dies if the user kills the app, therefore the Widget kill keep crashing and is no longer usable
If the app is killed and I re-enable the Widget it will start the service in the background and it will work well

On the other side, my notification listener works perfectly fine. Is there a way to send a notification with pure data to the app? That way I would not need to care on the application lifecycle and process the notifications independently.

All these limitations are provided because I am a react-native developer, so this is a little bit tricky.

Thanks!

edited Jun 30 '17 at 13:35

asked Jun 30 '17 at 13:19

jsdario

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Possible duplicate of [Does Android support near real time push notification?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243066/does-android-support-near-real-time-push-notification) – Abhishek Charismatic Jun 30 '17 at 13:20
Given the problem you have based on the characteristics of the app. Could you elaborate what these are? – Ruben Aalders Jun 30 '17 at 13:21
Sure @RubenAalders, just edited! – jsdario Jun 30 '17 at 13:35
@AbhishekCharismatic I just reviewed your link, it does not look like a duplicate – jsdario Jun 30 '17 at 13:37

Can I send a local silent notification from a Widget?

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