Foreground service notification

[ByteHamster]

The app recently got a foreground notification for the AlarmService. This is quite distracting because I now receive 2 heads up cards per event. One that actually is about the event and one that just tells me that the service is running. I suggest to change the behavior so that only one notification is displayed. For this purpose, I have 2 possible solutions.

• Post the foreground notification on a different channel, so I can hide it in the Android settings (quick and dirty).
• Convert the AlarmService to a JobIntentService. It looks like the service is only started for a very short period of time. As soon as its work is done, the service is stopped. This is exactly the use-case of a Job instead of a Service. The JobIntentService class from the support libraries automatically uses a Job on new Android versions and therefore does not need a foreground notification. This way would be more clean. https://medium.com/til-kotlin/jobintentservice-for-background-processing-on-android-o-39535460e060

[jspricke]

Thanks for the analysis, can you come up with a pull request? Given the age of the code, I can imagine that your second option is correct (didn't look into the details), but trying your first option first would be fine with me as well.

[ByteHamster]

can you come up with a pull request?

Hmm I am quite busy currently. Let's see when this is bugging me enough to clone the repo :P

[Gitsaibot]

Convert the AlarmService to a JobIntentService

That's the way we should go. Besides this would solve #521 which is caused by using the same channelID, I think.

[Cwpute]

I am still having this problem. Has the issue been fixed for you since then @ByteHamster ?