09. Events

Events are useful to hook into the life cycle of local notifications to react on user interactions like the click event or to start a workflow on trigger event.

Overview

The following list gives an overview about all supported events. Most events are related to a interface method.

Event	Description	Further Informations
schedule	A notification was scheduled.	Schedule local notifications
trigger	A notification was triggered.	Schedule local notifications
update	A notification was updated.	Update local notifications
clear	A notification was cleared from the notification center.	Clear local notifications
clearall	All notifications were cleared from the notification center.	Clear local notifications
cancel	A notification was canceled.	Cancel local notifications
cancelall	All notification were canceled.	Cancel local notifications
click	A notification was clicked.

Further information

• The click event will also be called after deviceready if the app wasn't running.
• The clearand clearall event will not be called when done from outside the app on iOS.

Interface

To get informed about events, a listener for that event needs to be declared as following through the on() interface.

The interface requires a event name, a callback function and optionally a callback scope as third argument. The callback will be invoked with the related notification and the application's state as a string - foreground or background.

When scheduling multiple notifications at once, the schedule event will be fired for each single notification. Same applies to cancel, update and clear.

cordova.plugins.notification.local.on("click", function (notification, state) {
    alert(notification.id + " was clicked");
}, this)

In contrast the callback for clearall and cancelall event will be invoked with only the application's state as argument.

cordova.plugins.notification.local.on("clearall", function (state) {
    if (state == "background") {    
        alert("Notification center cleared from outside");
    }
}, this)

Quirks

When scheduling multiple notifications at once, the schedule and trigger events may come in random order due to the asynchronous behavior of the plugin and OS.