Repeating too many times on Android

versions

react-native-push-notification: 2.2.1 React Native: 0.41.2 Android: 6

problem

When I specify repeatType in my localNotification setting object, the notification repeats constantly every 1~2 seconds.

Here is how I am using this package. The code below is fired once and once only:

PushNotification.localNotification({
    /* Android Only Properties */
    autoCancel: true,
    largeIcon: 'ic_launcher',
    smallIcon: 'ic_notification',
    bigText: 'foo', // (optional) default: 'message' prop
    // subText: 'This is a subText', // (optional) default: none
    color: 'red', // (optional) default: system default
    vibrate: true, // (optional) default: true
    vibration: 300, // vibration length in milliseconds, ignored if vibrate=false, default: 1000
    tag: 'some_tag', // (optional) add tag to message
    group: 'group', // (optional) add group to message
    ongoing: false, // (optional) set whether this is an 'ongoing' notification

    /* iOS only properties */
    // alertAction: // (optional) default: view
    // category: // (optional) default: null
    // userInfo: // (optional) default: null (object containing additional notification data)

    /* iOS and Android properties */
    title: 'New exercise', // (optional, for iOS this is only used in apple watch, the title will be the app name on other iOS devices)
    message: 'foo', // (required)
    playSound: false, // (optional) default: true
    soundName: 'default', // (optional) Sound to play when the notification is shown. Value of 'default' plays the default sound. It can be set to a custom sound such as 'android.resource://com.xyz/raw/my_sound'. It will look for the 'my_sound' audio file in 'res/raw' directory and play it. default: 'default' (default sound is played)
    number: '10', // (optional) Valid 32 bit integer specified as string. default: none (Cannot be zero)
    // date: new Date(),
    repeatType: 'hour', // (Android only) Repeating interval. Could be one of `week`, `day`, `hour`, `minute, `time`. If specified as time, it should be accompanied by one more parameter 'repeatTime` which should the number of milliseconds between each interval
    // actions: '['Yes', 'No']',  // (Android only) See the doc for notification actions to know more
  });

No matter what the value is for repeatType the notification repeats constantly every 1~2 seconds. I tried to include date but doing so did not fix the problem. If I remove repeatType from the object, the problem goes away and notification shows once.

Here is my logcat:

...
02-23 12:08:08.232 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp D/RNPushNotification: Repeating notification with id -992659542 at time 162000000
02-23 12:08:08.234 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp D/RNPushNotification: Storing push notification with id -992659542
02-23 12:08:08.238 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp D/RNPushNotification: Setting a notification with id -992659542 at time 162000000
02-23 12:08:08.248 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp I/RNPushNotification: NotificationPublisher: Prepare To Publish: 805127505, Now Time: 1487812088248
02-23 12:08:08.267 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp D/RNPushNotification: Repeating notification with id 805127505 at time 216000000
02-23 12:08:08.270 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp D/RNPushNotification: Storing push notification with id 805127505
02-23 12:08:08.273 17656-17656/com.flowmadapp D/RNPushNotification: Setting a notification with id 805127505 at time 216000000
...

Any ideas?

more info

I had to upgrade build.gradle due to the issues related to https://github.com/zo0r/react-native-push-notification/issues/252

android/app/build.gradle

dependencies {
   ...
    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0"
    compile ('com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:9.0.1') { force = true; }
}

[lukewlms]

I suspect you had a date set in the past.

In iOS if you set a past date with recurring, it will only show future reminders; however, Android will try to “catch up” and show every “missed” notification (which in our case was thousands).

Make sure to set ONLY future dates when setting up a repeated notification.

[peterchibunna]

Remove the repeatType option. I think there’s a bug around it.