Support local notifications on Android O

[gustavogenovese]

This fixes issue #606

[piu130]

@gcesarmza How did you solve the compile problem using a different version of appcompat v7?

react-native uses 23.0.1 and this project 26.0.+.

I get the following error:

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:preDebugBuild'.
> Android dependency 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7' has different version for the compile (23.0.1) and runtime (26.0.2) classpath. You should manually set the same version via DependencyResolution

[sheydarezaee]

thanks @gcesarmza for your recent update on Android Oreo support .. I used your latest commit and now I am able to receive notifications, but app crashes upon receiving notifications. I tested this when app is closed. any resolution on that?

[piu130]

@sheydarezaee I think I found the problem. The default react-native config overrides allprojects.repositories in android/build.gradle so this module can only use mavenLocal(), jcenter() and maven { url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android" }. But there is only appcompat version 26-alpha1 available then.

So you have to add maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' } to allprojects.repositories in android/build.gradle to get newer appcompat versionsthat support NotificationChannel.

[elieteyssedou]

Is this pull request ready to be merged ? If so, could we have this fix in a new version of this package ? @zo0r

I think that Android 8 (Oreo) support is important.

[elieteyssedou]

I have tested it and it seems to work fine for me.

[calcazar]

FYI, I added your PR to a community edition clone I created for better support:

https://github.com/calcazar/react-native-push-notification-CE

[lordress]

Tested for local notification. Working fine on oreo.
Thanks!

[greyvugrin]

Confirmed that this fixes the issue too. @zo0r is this PR good to go? Other peeps - is there anyone else that can be pinged to bump this PR up?

[billdozr]

This is really becoming an issue:

Any updates on getting this PR merged?

[gongmingqm10]

@gcesarmza Could you please help to resolve the conflicts for this PR.

@zo0r Please have a look at this Android O notification channel issue.

[1Jesper1]

Any plans for a new release on npm to fix this?

[Gp2mv3]

Yes, after everything is tested and proven working.

[KemikalGeneral]

Hi! sorry, bit late to the party it seems, but i have recently joined a company that is using this package for push notifications and we too have the Android 8 issue of not receiving notifications.

It seems there have been a number of changes in recent months and as there are a lot of open issues regarding this and talk of soon to be pushed patches, i was wondering if there is a fix for it at all please?

Thanks!