Failed to post notification on channel “null” Target Api is 26

Question

Two log showing

1: Use of stream types is deprecated for operations other than volume control

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Answer 1

Gulzar Bhat's answer is working perfectly if your minimum API is Oreo. If your minimum is lower however, you have to wrap the NotificationChannel code in a platform level check. After that you can still use the id, which will be ignored pre Oreo:

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
    int importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW;
    NotificationChannel notificationChannel = new NotificationChannel(NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID, NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_NAME, importance);
    notificationChannel.enableLights(true);
    notificationChannel.setLightColor(Color.RED);
    notificationChannel.enableVibration(true);
    notificationChannel.setVibrationPattern(new long[]{100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 400, 300, 200, 400});
    notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(notificationChannel);
}

NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context, NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID);

NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify((int)(System.currentTimeMillis()/1000), mBuilder.build());

Answer 2

If you get this error should be paid attention to 2 items and them order:

1. NotificationChannel mChannel = new NotificationChannel(id, name, importance);
2. builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, id);

Also NotificationManager notifManager and NotificationChannel mChannel are created only once.

There are required setters for Notification:

builder.setContentTitle() // required  
       .setSmallIcon()    // required 
       .setContentText()  // required  

See the example in On Android 8.1 API 27 notification does not display.

Answer 3

From the developer documentation:

When you target Android 8.0 (API level 26), you must implement one or more notification channels to display notifications to your users.

int NOTIFICATION_ID = 234;
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) ctx.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
    String CHANNEL_ID = "my_channel_01";
    CharSequence name = "my_channel";
    String Description = "This is my channel";
    int importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_HIGH;
    NotificationChannel mChannel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, name, importance);
    mChannel.setDescription(Description);
    mChannel.enableLights(true);
    mChannel.setLightColor(Color.RED);
    mChannel.enableVibration(true);
    mChannel.setVibrationPattern(new long[]{100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 400, 300, 200, 400});
    mChannel.setShowBadge(false);
    notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);
}

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(ctx, CHANNEL_ID)
    .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
    .setContentTitle(title)
    .setContentText(message);

Intent resultIntent = new Intent(ctx, MainActivity.class);
TaskStackBuilder stackBuilder = TaskStackBuilder.create(ctx);
stackBuilder.addParentStack(MainActivity.class);
stackBuilder.addNextIntent(resultIntent);
PendingIntent resultPendingIntent = stackBuilder.getPendingIntent(0, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
builder.setContentIntent(resultPendingIntent);
notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());

One interesting thing to note: If a channel already exists, calling createNotificationChannel has no effect, so you can create all channels whenever you start your application.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem but starting an service as a background activity, in the service this code worked:

public static final int PRIMARY_FOREGROUND_NOTIF_SERVICE_ID = 1001;

@Override
public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {

        String id = "_channel_01";
        int importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW;
        NotificationChannel mChannel = new NotificationChannel(id, "notification", importance);
        mChannel.enableLights(true);

        Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(getApplicationContext(), id)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher)
                .setContentTitle("My chat")
                .setContentText("Listening for incoming messages")
                .build();

        NotificationManager mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        if (mNotificationManager != null) {
            mNotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);
            mNotificationManager.notify(PRIMARY_FOREGROUND_NOTIF_SERVICE_ID, notification);
        }

        startForeground(PRIMARY_FOREGROUND_NOTIF_SERVICE_ID, notification);
    }
}

It's not the best solution but just to start the service in the background It does work

Answer 5

String CHANNEL_ID = "my_channel";

NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this,CHANNEL_ID);

Answer 6

You can solve this in two ways but for both of them you need to create a notification channel with an specific channel id.

NotificationManager mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
String id = "my_channel_01";
int importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW;
NotificationChannel mChannel = new NotificationChannel(id, name,importance);
mChannel.enableLights(true);
mNotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);

First way is to set channel for notification in constructor:

Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(MainActivity.this , id).setContentTitle("Title");
mNotificationManager.notify("your_notification_id", notification);

Second way is to set the channel by Notificiation.Builder.setChannelId()

Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(MainActivity.this).setContentTitle("Title").
setChannelId(id);
mNotificationManager.notify("your_notification_id", notification);

Hope this helps