React-native-push-notification: Channel name updated when sending local notification

[piotrponikowski]

I have created custom channel:

    PushNotification.createChannel(
      {
        channelId: 'myid',
        channelName: 'Channel Name',
        channelDescription: 'Channel Description',
      },
      created => console.log(create)
    );

and then somewhere in my code I created new local notification:

    PushNotification.localNotification({
      title: 'Title',
      message: 'Message',
      channelId: 'myid',
    });

After this my channel name has been updated back to default value: 'rn-push-notification-channel'

Looks like this is caused by this check:
https://github.com/zo0r/react-native-push-notification/blob/master/android/src/main/java/com/dieam/reactnativepushnotification/modules/RNPushNotificationHelper.java#L946
Is it intentional behavior?

Based on source code I was able to find workaround by providing channelName and channelDescription when sending notification, however these attributes are not documented.

    PushNotification.localNotification({
      title: 'Title',
      message: 'Message',
      channelId: 'myid',
      channelName: 'Channel Name',
      channelDescription: 'Channel Description',
    });

[Dallas62]

Hi @piotrponikowski
This is not the expected behaviour, I will look into it.
Regards,

[andkom]

I have same issue

[CaptBoscho]

Happening to me, and it triggers 2 notifications with the RNPushNotification.presentLocalNotification

[Dallas62]

Hi,
I didn't made update on this issue, but I recommend you to keep creating channels by yourself (like you mentioned):

    PushNotification.createChannel(
      {
        channelId: 'myid',
        channelName: 'Channel Name',
        channelDescription: 'Channel Description',
      },
      created => console.log(create)
    );

In order to simplify the library and also avoid some complex edges cases, the following behaviour will be removed:

• Auto creation of channels

This means the creation of the channel must be made before you trigger a notification. And this will solve this issue.

[Dallas62]

You can test changes on dev branch.

Please refer to the CHANGELOG for update instructions:
https://github.com/zo0r/react-native-push-notification/blob/dev/CHANGELOG.md#unreleased

To install this version:

npm install zo0r/react-native-push-notification#dev

OR

yarn add zo0r/react-native-push-notification#dev

Make sure your build cache is cleaned.

[piotrponikowski]

I tested with dev branch and it works correctly for me - channel name is not overwritten to default name anymore.

Thank you for help!

[Dallas62]

Thanks for your feedback !

[CaptBoscho]

It works great for me as well- do you know when you'll be releasing ths update?

[Dallas62]

I will do it at this Friday, don't have enough time this week in case of issues.

[Dallas62]

Just released 😉