Cordova-plugin-local-notifications: [0.9.0-beta.3] "NotificationCompat does not exist" cause ionic build error

[jing-zhou]

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I am using the "cordova-plugin-local-notification" 0.9.0-beta.2, in an ionic 4 project as per the instruction of native api.

afte the integration , I built the project by command

ionic cordova run android --verbose

the build (after about 40 minutes )failed with the following prompt

... 
:app:generateDebugSources UP-TO-DATE
:app:javaPreCompileDebug UP-TO-DATE
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:32: error: package android.support.v4.media.app.NotificationCompat does not exist
import android.support.v4.media.app.NotificationCompat.MediaStyle;
                                                      ^
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:130: error: cannot find symbol
                .setChannelId(options.getChannel())
                ^
  symbol:   method setChannelId(String)
  location: class Builder
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:296: error: cannot find symbol
        MediaStyle style;
        ^
  symbol:   class MediaStyle
  location: class Builder
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:298: error: cannot find symbol
        style = new MediaStyle(builder)
                    ^
  symbol:   class MediaStyle
  location: class Builder
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:417: error: constructor Builder in class Builder cannot be applied to given types;
            builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context, options.getChannel());
                      ^
  required: Context
  found: Context,String
  reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
5 errors
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 43m 44s
27 actionable tasks: 1 executed, 26 up-to-date
Command finished with error code 1: /home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/gradlew cdvBuildDebug,-b,/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/build.gradle,-Dorg.gradle.daemon=true,-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m,-Pandroid.useDeprecatedNdk=true
(node:22449) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: /home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:32: error: package android.support.v4.media.app.NotificationCompat does not exist
import android.support.v4.media.app.NotificationCompat.MediaStyle;
                                                      ^
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:130: error: cannot find symbol
                .setChannelId(options.getChannel())
                ^
  symbol:   method setChannelId(String)
  location: class Builder
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:296: error: cannot find symbol
        MediaStyle style;
        ^
  symbol:   class MediaStyle
  location: class Builder
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:298: error: cannot find symbol
        style = new MediaStyle(builder)
                    ^
  symbol:   class MediaStyle
  location: class Builder
/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/app/src/main/java/de/appplant/cordova/plugin/notification/Builder.java:417: error: constructor Builder in class Builder cannot be applied to given types;
            builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context, options.getChannel());
                      ^
  required: Context
  found: Context,String
  reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
5 errors

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 43m 44s
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/home/wjz/ion/arhat/platforms/android/cordova/node_modules/cordova-common/src/superspawn.js:169:23)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:961:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:5)
(node:22449) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:22449) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Your Environment

print-out of "ionic info"

wjz@bj:~/ion/arhat$ ionic info 

Ionic:

   ionic (Ionic CLI)             : 4.3.1 (/home/wjz/.nvm/versions/node/v10.7.0/lib/node_modules/ionic)
   Ionic Framework               : @ionic/angular 4.0.0-beta.15
   @angular-devkit/build-angular : 0.8.6
   @angular-devkit/schematics    : 0.8.6
   @angular/cli                  : 6.2.6
   @ionic/angular-toolkit        : 1.0.0

Cordova:

   cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0
   Cordova Platforms     : android 7.0.0
   Cordova Plugins       : cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 2.0.2, (and 12 other plugins)

System:

   Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (/home/wjz/Android/Sdk)
   NodeJS            : v10.7.0 (/home/wjz/.nvm/versions/node/v10.7.0/bin/node)
   npm               : 6.2.0
   OS                : Linux 4.15

Environment:

   HTTP_PROXY  : http://127.0.0.1:37245/
   http_proxy  : http://127.0.0.1:37245/
   HTTPS_PROXY : http://127.0.0.1:37245/
   https_proxy : http://127.0.0.1:37245/

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Context

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Debug logs

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• Android: $ adb logcat

[jing-zhou]

this turned out to be a build fault. the build process' failure in loading some dependencies had caused this problems

[idehweb]

how did you make that work???

[markterrill]

I'm having this exact problem @jing-zhou, how did you fix it?

[markterrill]

@idehweb , did you get it going?

[JapuDCret]

I can recommend this fork: https://github.com/timkellypa/cordova-plugin-local-notifications
works fine now

[danieleisenhardt]

Thanks JapuDCret!

cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-local-notification

cordova plugin add https://github.com/timkellypa/cordova-plugin-local-notifications.git

fixes this problem.

[Lizard-King101]

no that is not a fix @danieleisenhardt @JapuDCret that repo crashes the app and their fix is to use this repo but this issue has build issues and the fix is to use that repo?????