Notifications

In my previous example I detailed how to schedule notifications in Xamarin on Android but didn’t show the Xamarin Forms application reacting to that specific notification.  Let’s fix that.

First override the OnNewIntent method in the MainActivity.  We override this method so notifications will work if the application is currently running or is stopped and the notification started the application.  In the OnNewIntent method you put code that makes sure it’s a notification you want to respond to then extracts any needed information from the notification.  An example is below:

I’m currently working on a notification plugin for Xamarin Forms and wanted to setup some unit tests.  The problem is my code accesses the device-specific notification systems in iOS and Android.  This means I can’t just run my unit tests on Windows.  Instead I need to run the unit tests in a iOS or Android environment.  In my case this means an emulator.

How to do that?  Use the NUnit 3 Xamarin Runners.  It was not clear how to correctly create the test projects but the way that worked for me was this.