Local Notifications Releases

v5

5.2.0 - July 6, 2026

Feature

Shiny.Notifications.Extensions.AI — new package exposing local notifications as reminder-framed Microsoft.Extensions.AI tool functions for LLM agents. Opt-in read/write allow-list via AddNotificationAITools(b => b.AddReminders(ReminderAICapabilities.ReadWrite)); generates list_reminders, create_reminder (one-time or daily), and cancel_reminder. AOT-compatible. See AI Tools.

5.1.2 - July 1, 2026

Fix Android

[GitHub #1632]

Scheduled notifications no longer silently fail to fire when exact alarm permission is not granted. On Android 12+ Shiny now falls back to an inexact alarm (which may be slightly delayed by the OS) instead of throwing a SecurityException when SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM/USE_EXACT_ALARM access is unavailable. Request AccessRequestFlags.TimeSensitivity for exact, on-time delivery.

Fix Android

Corrected the exact-alarm manifest guidance. Capping SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM with android:maxSdkVersion="32" without also declaring USE_EXACT_ALARM leaves an app with no exact-alarm permission on Android 13+ (API 33+) - the “Alarms & reminders” toggle appears greyed out and unchecked. Most apps should now declare SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM uncapped; only genuine alarm/reminder apps use the capped + USE_EXACT_ALARM pairing.

Fix Android

Scheduled, repeating, and geofence notifications now appear in GetPendingNotifications() (and can be cancelled by id). They were being persisted under the wrong entity type, so the pending list always came back empty and Cancel(id)/GetNotification(id) could not find them. Repeating notifications now also persist their recalculated next-fire date after each alarm fires, so they stay in the pending list across occurrences instead of disappearing.

Fix Android

Fixed multiple scheduled/repeating notifications colliding on a single alarm. The alarm PendingIntent now uses the notification id as its request code - previously a shared request code meant a newly scheduled notification overwrote earlier pending alarms, Cancel could cancel the wrong alarm, and a fired alarm could resolve the wrong notification.

5.0.1 - June 28, 2026

Fix Android

Fixed IGeofenceManager is not registered exception when using Shiny.Notifications as a standalone package (without Shiny.Locations) - AddNotifications() now registers the geofence services and NotificationGeofenceDelegate needed for geofence-triggered local notifications

Fix Android

[GitHub #1630]

Fixed No JsonTypeInfo registered for type 'Shiny.Notifications.Notification' thrown from Send - the base Notification/Channel types are now registered in the source-generated JSON context (the Android notification intent serializes the base Notification). List and array variants of all notification types are registered as well.

Fix Windows

[GitHub #1628]

Unpackaged apps no longer throw/log an error from RequestAccess/GetCurrentAccess - ToastNotifier.Setting is unsupported without package identity, so access is now reported as available instead of failing

5.0.0 - June 20, 2026

Feature

macOS support added - local notifications via UNUserNotificationCenter

Feature

Windows support added - local notifications via ToastNotificationManager (channels are limited compared to mobile)

Feature

Linux support added via new Shiny.Notifications.Linux package. Delivered through the freedesktop org.freedesktop.Notifications D-Bus service (GNOME, KDE, etc.). Scheduled notifications are tracked in-process only — the host must be running for them to fire, since there is no OS-level scheduler on Linux.

Fix Android

[GitHub #1406]

Request SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM properly via AlarmManager and system settings intent instead of treating it as a runtime permission

v4

4.0.1 - March 26, 2026

Fix Android

AndroidX version pins

v3

3.3.0 - March 18, 2024

Fix Android

[GitHub #1392] by msousley

Use notification audio channel

3.2.2 - January 3, 2024

Fix ios

[GitHub #1366]

Crash tapping local notification on iOS earlier than 16 when accessing FilterCriteria

3.1.2 - November 7, 2023

Enhancement Android

Using AndroidNotification, you can now set the android specific Category

3.1.1 - November 1, 2023

Fix Android

Listen to activity.OnCreate intents

3.0.0 - September 5, 2023

Enhancement Android

Android 13 Support for new POST_NOTIFICATION permissions

Enhancement

OS specific configuration for Android and iOS

Enhancement

Ability to customize actual native notification before it is sent/queued

Enhancement

Improved sound customization via new channel flag - Channel.Sound = ChannelSound.Custom|High|Default|None