App Settings in .NET MAUI - Notifications

#dotnet #dotnetmaui #ios #android

In this article, I'm going to show you how to validate if the user enabled or disabled the app notifications in .NET MAUI for Android and iOS.

Create a static class NotificationsHelper

public static bool AreDeviceNotificationsEnabled()
    {
#if ANDROID
        return AndroidX.Core.App.NotificationManagerCompat.From(Platform.CurrentActivity).AreNotificationsEnabled();
#elif IOS
        var settings = UIKit.UIApplication.SharedApplication.CurrentUserNotificationSettings.Types;
        return settings != UIKit.UIUserNotificationType.None;
#endif
    }

Validate

It is a good practice to help the users by asking them if they want to open the app settings, so they can enable the notifications.


if (!AreDeviceNotificationsEnabled())
{
   if (showAlert)
   {
      var result = await Application.Current.MainPage.DisplayAlert("Enable Notifications", "Your notifications system are currently turned off", "Go to Settings", "Cancel");
      if (result)
      {
         AppInfo.ShowSettingsUI();
      }
   }
}

Conclusion

In .NET MAUI it is really cool how easy you can implement a static method that allows to execute code based on each platform. Of course if you prefer to avoid the declarative conditionals you can always use the .ios.cs and .android.cs file class naming convention.

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