A basic notification usually includes a title, a line of text and/or actions. Using the style property on a notification, you can provide additional information which can be viewed when the user expands the notification, giving better overall context of the notification.

Big Picture

The big picture style allows you to display a large resolution image within the body of your notification when expanded, and it's possible to also override any large icons.

To implement this style, we provide the AndroidStyle.BIGPICTURE to the style object:

import notifee, { AndroidStyle } from '@notifee/react-native';

notifee.displayNotification({
  title: 'Image uploaded',
  body: 'Your image has been successfully uploaded',
  android: {
    channelId,
    style: { type: AndroidStyle.BIGPICTURE, picture: 'https://my-cdn.com/user/123/upload/456.png' },
  },
});

It is also possible to override the title, largeIcon and summary text when the notification is in the expanded state. To learn more, view the AndroidBigPictureStyle documentation.

Big Text

In its collapsed form, the notification body of text will truncate itself if it spans more than a few lines (depending on space). The big text style allows you to show a large volume of text when expanded. This is commonly used for messages/emails by apps such as GMail.

To implement this style, we provide the AndroidStyle.BIGTEXT to the style object:

import notifee, { AndroidStyle } from '@notifee/react-native';

notifee.displayNotification({
  title: 'Image uploaded',
  body: 'Your image has been successfully uploaded',
  android: {
    channelId,
    style: { type: AndroidStyle.BIGTEXT, text: 'Large volume of text shown in the expanded state' },
  },
});

It is also possible to override the title and summary text when the notification is in the expanded state. To learn more, view the AndroidBigTextStyle documentation.

Inbox

Inbox style notifications are used to display multiple lines of content inside of a single notification. Depending on space, the device will show as many lines of text as possible, and "hide" the remainder.

To implement this style, we provide the AndroidStyle.INBOX to the style object:

import notifee, { AndroidStyle } from '@notifee/react-native';

notifee.displayNotification({
  title: 'Messages list',
  android: {
    channelId,
    style: {
      type: AndroidStyle.INBOX,
      lines: ['First Message', 'Second Message', 'Third Message', 'Forth Message'],
    },
  },
});

It is also possible to override the title and summary text when the notification is in the expanded state. To learn more, view the AndroidInboxStyle documentation.

Messaging

Message style notifications are used when you wish to display the history of an ongoing chat.

To implement this style, we provide the AndroidStyle.MESSAGING to the style object:

import notifee, { AndroidStyle } from '@notifee/react-native';

notifee.displayNotification({
  title: 'Sarah Lane',
  body: 'Great thanks, food later?',
  android: {
    channelId,
    style: {
      type: AndroidStyle.MESSAGING,
      person: {
        name: 'John Doe',
        icon: 'https://my-cdn.com/avatars/123.png',
      },
      messages: [
        {
          text: 'Hey, how are you?',
          timestamp: Date.now() - 600000, // 10 minutes ago
        },
        {
          text: 'Great thanks, food later?',
          timestamp: Date.now(), // Now
          person: {
            name: 'Sarah Lane',
            icon: 'https://my-cdn.com/avatars/567.png',
          },
        },
      ],
    },
  },
});

Whenever a new message is received, the notification created can be expanded to display the previous conversation messages.

At the root, the style accepts a person property, which contains information of the current device user. To see more about the options available to you, view the AndroidPerson documentation.

The property messages, is an array of historic messages (the first item being the earliest message). Messages generally contain text, a timestamp and a person (if the user is remote). To view the full list of message options, view the AndroidMessagingStyleMessage documentation.

We can also update the notification title when expanded, and flag to the system the message consists of a group of users by setting the group property to true.

Media

Media style notifications are a way of showing a notification with intractable & dynamic content, for example the current song/video playing with album art.

Currently, Media Style notifications are not supported.