.Net MAUI - Local Notification

In this tutorial, we will see how to display the local notification from the .Net MAUI application. For this, we are using the "Plugin.LocalNotification" plugin which is compatible with Xamarin.Forms and .Net MAUI. To know more, visit here.

Quick Links

• Project Setup
• Implementation
• Demo
• Full Code
• Download Code

Project Setup

Launch Visual Studio 2022, and in the start, window click Create a new project to create a new project.

In the Create a new project window, select MAUI in the All project types drop-down, select the .NET MAUI App template, and click the Next button:

In the configure your new project window, name your project, choose a suitable location for it, and click the Next button:

In the Additional information window, click the Create button:

Once the project is created, we can able to see the Android, iOS, Windows and other running options in the toolbar. Press the emulator or run button to build and run the app

Implementation

• Open Nuget Manager, search "Plugin.LocalNotification" and install the plugin.
• To show the notification, open your *.xaml.cs file and add namespace "Plugin.LocalNotification" by including "using Plugin.LocalNotifications;"

In Solution Explorer, click MainPage.xaml and replace the page content with what is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dotnet/2021/maui"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             x:Class="MauiTutorial7.MainPage">
			 
    <ScrollView>
        <VerticalStackLayout 
            Spacing="25" 
            Padding="30,0" 
            VerticalOptions="Center">

            <Image
                Source="dotnet_bot.png"
                SemanticProperties.Description="Cute dot net bot waving hi to you!"
                HeightRequest="200"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />
                
            <Label 
                Text="Hello, World!"
                SemanticProperties.HeadingLevel="Level1"
                FontSize="32"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />
            
            <Label 
                Text="Welcome to .NET Multi-platform App UI"
                SemanticProperties.HeadingLevel="Level2"
                SemanticProperties.Description="Welcome to dot net Multi platform App U I"
                FontSize="18"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />

            <Button 
                x:Name="CounterBtn"
                Text="Show Notification"
                SemanticProperties.Hint="Counts the number of times you click"
                Clicked="OnCounterClicked"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />

        </VerticalStackLayout>
    </ScrollView>
</ContentPage>

Open the MainPage.xaml.cs file and the page content as shown below:

using Plugin.LocalNotification;
namespace MauiTutorial7;
public partial class MainPage: ContentPage {
    int count = 0;
    public MainPage() {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
    private void OnCounterClicked(object sender, EventArgs e) {
        var request = new NotificationRequest {
            NotificationId = 1000,
                Title = "Subscribe for me",
                Subtitle = "Hello Friends",
                Description = "Stay Tuned",
                BadgeNumber = 42,
                Schedule = new NotificationRequestSchedule {
                    NotifyTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(5),
                        NotifyRepeatInterval = TimeSpan.FromDays(1)
                }
        };
        LocalNotificationCenter.Current.Show(request);
    }
}

Here,

• Title: Notification Title
• Description: Notification Description
• Subtitle: Notification Subtitle for collapsed view
• Schedule: DateTime value to show the notification after the mentioned schedule
• Repeat: DateTime value to repeat the notification after the mentioned frequency

Demo

 

Full Code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dotnet/2021/maui"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             x:Class="MauiTutorial7.MainPage">
			 
    <ScrollView>
        <VerticalStackLayout 
            Spacing="25" 
            Padding="30,0" 
            VerticalOptions="Center">

            <Image
                Source="dotnet_bot.png"
                SemanticProperties.Description="Cute dot net bot waving hi to you!"
                HeightRequest="200"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />
                
            <Label 
                Text="Hello, World!"
                SemanticProperties.HeadingLevel="Level1"
                FontSize="32"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />
           
            <Label 
                Text="Welcome to .NET Multi-platform App UI"
                SemanticProperties.HeadingLevel="Level2"
                SemanticProperties.Description="Welcome to dot net Multi platform App U I"
                FontSize="18"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />
            <Button 
                x:Name="CounterBtn"
                Text="Show Notification"
                SemanticProperties.Hint="Counts the number of times you click"
                Clicked="OnCounterClicked"
                HorizontalOptions="Center" />
        </VerticalStackLayout>
    </ScrollView>
</ContentPage>

using Plugin.LocalNotification;
namespace MauiTutorial7;
public partial class MainPage: ContentPage {
    int count = 0;
    public MainPage() {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
    private void OnCounterClicked(object sender, EventArgs e) {
        var request = new NotificationRequest {
            NotificationId = 1000,
                Title = "Subscribe for me",
                Subtitle = "Hello Friends",
                Description = "Stay Tuned",
                BadgeNumber = 42,
                Schedule = new NotificationRequestSchedule {
                    NotifyTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(5),
                        NotifyRepeatInterval = TimeSpan.FromDays(1)
                }
        };
        LocalNotificationCenter.Current.Show(request);
    }
}

Download Code

You can download the code from GitHub. If you have any doubts, feel free to post a comment. If you liked this article, and it is useful to you, do like, share the article & star the repository on GitHub.

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