Hi, did anyone there made their `NotificationCompat` Kotlin extensions? I personally made some, and ...

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[louiscad]

Hi, did anyone there made their NotificationCompat Kotlin extensions? I personally made some, and I'm looking for folks to discuss API design regarding extensions for these APIs. I'm looking forward exchanging inspiration to get to a DSL that is the lest error-prone and forget-prone possible, and very readable (can't stand these NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_ and similar prefixes).

Right, this is what I have, and I know I can make improvements, but I'd like to bounce off improvement ideas.

val notification = buildNotification(ChannelIds.Something) {
    priority = NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_MAX
    category = NotificationCompat.CATEGORY_STATUS
    visibility = Public
    contentText = "Some content text"
    smallIcon = R.drawable.ic_some_icon_white_24dp
}

[dave08]

contentText can also get a res id? Also, what about some combination of res id and formatting as a function?

[dave08]

I currently also have a wrapper for updating progress

[louiscad]

@dave08 With #splitties Resources, you just have to do txt(R.string.some_text), that problem is already resolved :)

[dave08]

Not bad 🙂 where are you getting the context from?

Notifying progress is also a headache, since if you send too many updates the UI can get stuck, so my wrapper has some kind of debounce logic inside... might also be a point to consider. In general, with the DSL you're planning, how would an already built notification be updated?

[louiscad]

@dave08 Throttling notification update is out of the scope of such a DSL IMO, because different use cases would want different refresh rates, and Flow from #coroutines can already handle that perfectly.
About the Context, I stopped minding about that for a while. I can either use it as a receiver in the function calling the buildNotification function, or use appTxt which will use the application context.

[dave08]

So without throttling, updating an existing notification would mean using buildNotification with rthe same id, or is there another dsl for that?

[louiscad]

Yes, that's how it's handled by Android: provide another Notification with same id (and tag if used)