Android 12 not receving expo-notifications correctly

Summary

Upon sending notifications to an app using android SDK 31 the notifications never appear on the mobile phone. The Notifications.addNotificationReceivedListener is still called, but notification is never shown in the UI.

Also the Notifications.scheduleNotificationAsync results in Error: Failed to schedule notification. This is to my knowledge only happening on android 12.

Downgrading to SDK 30 makes notification work as expected again.

Tested with Poco F3, MIUI Global 13.0.3

Managed or bare workflow? If you have ios/ or android/ directories in your project, the answer is bare!

bare

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

44.0.6

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.2 environment info: System: OS: Linux 5.15 Manjaro Linux Shell: 5.8 - /usr/bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 14.17.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.17 - /usr/bin/yarn npm: 6.14.13 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/npm SDKs: Android SDK: API Levels: 29, 30, 31 Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 30.0.3 System Images: android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom npmPackages: expo: ~44.0.0 => 44.0.6 react: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-dom: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-native: 0.64.3 => 0.64.3 react-native-web: 0.17.1 => 0.17.1 Expo Workflow: bare

Reproducible demo

Setting up a new bare workflow with expo init test-notifications expo eject

Installing / Setting up expo notifications expo install expo-notifications And following: https://docs.expo.dev/guides/setup-native-firebase/#bare-workflow-setup Inserting the example from https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/notifications/ in App.js

Upgrading android SDK in root build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "29.0.3"
        minSdkVersion = 21
        compileSdkVersion = 31
        targetSdkVersion = 31
    }
    ...
}

And adding android:exported="true" to AndroidManifest.xml under .MainActivity, activity tag.

Now the issue can be reproduced by either pressing the schedule notification button or sending a notification to the push token, for example through the expo push notification tool.

[brentvatne]

if you are using android sdk 30, you should use expo sdk 44. if you are using android sdk 31, you should use expo sdk 45. https://blog.expo.dev/expo-sdk-45-f4e332954a68

[mmkhmk]

@txvnt We’re experiencing the same issue. Can confirm that after setting both compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 30 the notifications are working correctly.

@mmkhmk Have you tried above?

Yes, I tried it and it works with compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion 30. I didn’t find any no other solution so far.