bug: Local notification scheduled not called

[alphagamer7]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 2.4.7
  @capacitor/core: 2.4.7
  @capacitor/android: 2.4.7
  @capacitor/electron: 2.4.7
  @capacitor/ios: 2.4.7

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/core 2.4.6
  @capacitor/ios 2.4.6
  @capacitor/android 2.4.6
  @capacitor/cli 2.4.6
  @capacitor/electron not installed

[success] Android looking great! 👌
  Found 20 Capacitor plugins for ios:
    cordova-plugin-advanced-http (3.0.1)
    cordova-plugin-app-version (0.1.9)
    cordova-plugin-badge (0.8.8)
    cordova-plugin-device (2.0.2)
    cordova-plugin-file (6.0.2)
    cordova-plugin-file-transfer (1.7.1)
    cordova-plugin-filechooser (1.2.0)
    cordova-plugin-filepath (1.5.8)
    cordova-plugin-globalization (1.11.0)
    cordova-plugin-inappbrowser (4.0.0)
    cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard (2.2.0)
    cordova-plugin-ionic-webview (4.2.1)
    cordova-plugin-localization-strings (3.2.1)
    cordova-plugin-nativestorage (2.3.2)
    cordova-plugin-statusbar (2.4.2)
    cordova-plugin-whitelist (1.3.3)
    cordova-sqlite-storage (5.0.1)
    cordova.plugins.diagnostic (6.0.2)
    cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter (1.1.3)
    onesignal-cordova-plugin (2.11.2)
[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

Android, iOS

Current Behavior

Schedule notification gets called only once

Expected Behavior

Schedule notification should get called daily

Code Reproduction

let notification: LocalNotification = {
            title: 'title',
            body: 'body',
            id: dailySheduleNotificationIds[i],
            schedule: {
              on: {
                hour: times[i].hour,
                minute: times[i].minute,
              },
            },
            actionTypeId: '',
          };

and the rest with LocalNotifications.schedule

[Ionitron]

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[danielmalmros]

@alphagamer7 I have a problem similar to yours, and the documentation does not describe that well how to handle scheduled notification which repeats e.g. every day at 15:00 ("HH: mm") - at least I can not figure it out.

I got it to work on iOS with the following setup:

import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core';
const { LocalNotifications } = Plugins;

const notifs = await LocalNotifications.schedule({
  notifications: [
    {
      title: "Title",
      body: "Body text here",
      id: uniqueId,
      schedule: {
        repeats: true,
        every: "day",
        on: { hour, minute },
      },
    },
  ]
});

However, I have not managed to get the same setup to work on Android and I am still looking for an answer on how to make it work on both iOS and Android.

So it might be a bug or else the documentation needs to be updated to better describe how to handle scheduled local notifications that repeats itself every day at a specific time.

[alphagamer7]

Hi @danielmalmros, I gave up using the solution with every. Used a "hack" with scheduling "at" x number of times. Then when a user opens the app again, based on the date, rescheduling.

        // add for 14 days
        for (let j = 0; j < 14; j++) {
          var eachDay = moment(today).add(j, 'days'); 
          let notification: LocalNotification = {
            title: title,
            body: '',
            id: uniqueId
            schedule: {
              at: eachDay.toDate(),
            }
          };
        }

        return await LocalNotifications.schedule({
              notifications,
      });

[danielmalmros]

@alphagamer7 that would be one workaround to achieve the scheduled notifications.

But i must say I would love to hear from someone or the core team how to handle this the correct way.

I'll be watching this thread to get some clarification on this problem.

[daveshirman]

@alphagamer7 I have a problem similar to yours, and the documentation does not describe that well how to handle scheduled notification which repeats e.g. every day at 15:00 ("HH: mm") - at least I can not figure it out.

I got it to work on iOS with the following setup:

import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core';
const { LocalNotifications } = Plugins;

const notifs = await LocalNotifications.schedule({
  notifications: [
    {
      title: "Title",
      body: "Body text here",
      id: uniqueId,
      schedule: {
        repeats: true,
        every: "day",
        on: { hour, minute },
      },
    },
  ]
});

However, I have not managed to get the same setup to work on Android and I am still looking for an answer on how to make it work on both iOS and Android.

So it might be a bug or else the documentation needs to be updated to better describe how to handle scheduled local notifications that repeats itself every day at a specific time.

I second this, the documentation for this does not explain even the most simple use cases, i.e.

• Daily repeating at time X - e.g. every day at 15:00
• Specific day repeating at time X - e.g. every thursday at 09:00

These should be in the docs at a bare minimum.

[lpil]

I too am having an issue with this. It would be wonderful to get this cleared up, thank you!

[DevendraDesale]

@ionic-team can you please answer this question.

[michaeljelly]

Also having trouble! Bump!

[adamiprinciples]

Are there any updates on this? We've had to resort to using the Cordova plugin for this which isn't ideal as it's very poorly maintained. We're about to just write our own plugin to deal with this so just thought it was worth one last check to see if there had been any movement? We just need the 'every Thursday at 18:00' use case

[daveshirman]

Are there any updates on this? We've had to resort to using the Cordova plugin for this which isn't ideal as it's very poorly maintained. We're about to just write our own plugin to deal with this so just thought it was worth one last check to see if there had been any movement? We just need the 'every Thursday at 18:00' use case

If it helps, I wrote a small workaround on this using the Cordova plugin ages ago. Looks like it's a year later and this still hasn't been addressed, unless I'm mistaken?

Anyway, if you need it:

https://www.codingandclimbing.co.uk/blog/android-localnotifications-with-cordova-capacitor-example

[adamiprinciples]

We were using the Cordova plugin, thanks to your blog post in fact! It does complicate the build process though if you're building on the very latest version of Android and the need to use Jetifier isn't ideal. I spotted a 1.1.0 release of the Capacitor plugin https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/releases/tag/%40capacitor%2Flocal-notifications%401.1.0 so am about to see if this solves my issues!

[jcesarmobile]

closing in favor of https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/issues/836 since the plugins have been moved to that repository