feat: Add progress bar to Local Notification plugin

[jschillingApollo]

Feature Request

Description

Local Notification plugin has the option to display and update a progress bar.

Platform(s)

• At minimum: Android, iOS
• Ideally: Android, iOS, and web

Preferred Solution

• A notification could be scheduled, with a progress bar in an initial state (ex: 0 of 10 files uploaded).
• That notification could be updated using the notification's ID and the progress bar or other properties of the notification could be updated.
• Ideally the progress bar would be able to be updated without playing the notification sound on every update.
• Playing a sound on update of an existing notification should be optional and should be able to be disabled.

Alternatives

N/A

Additional Context

I've attempted to use the Ionic-Native Local Notifications plugin but it hasn't been updated since 2019 and there are many issues reported regarding it's compatibility with newer versions of iOS and Android.
The Ionic Native plugin was able to show progress bar and update it but it plays a notification sound every time the progress bar is updated and I am unable to disable or silence it.
As I am using Capacitor in my project, I would like to use the Capacitor plugins over the Ionic Native ones where possible.

[etischenko]

Based on this post, I assume that the progress bar was available in the Local Notifications plugin before. Was it removed?

Are there any community plugins adding the ability to use notification with a progress bar?

[jschillingApollo]

Based on this post, I assume that the progress bar was available in the Local Notifications plugin before. Was it removed?

Are there any community plugins adding the ability to use notification with a progress bar?

I'm not sure that it was available in the Capacitor Local Notifications plugin previously but in the Cordova Local Notifications plugin a progress bar is available for use. However the Cordova plugin hasn't been updated in a long time and has many issues reported regarding its compatibility with newer versions of iOS and Android.

Good find. I wonder if it was removed or if it is there but not mentioned in the docs.

Edit: I misread the quoted response.

[jcesarmobile]

that blog post is using the Cordova plugin, not Capacitor plugin

[Erudition]

If you need this now, I suggest you try NativeScript for Capacitor so you can use the NativeScript Local Notifications plugin, which seems much more mature than this one and has much better Android support.

[jschillingApollo]

If you need this now, I suggest you try NativeScript for Capacitor so you can use the NativeScript Local Notifications plugin, which seems much more mature than this one and has much better Android support.

Thank you for this! I'm not sure how I've managed to miss hearing about this but I'll definitely test this out.