Does Worklight have an API for adding local notifications to the Android notification bar / iOS notification center?

Question

Does Worklight have an API for adding local notifications to the Android notification bar / iOS notification center?

Use case - If the app is in the background, and if there is some information to be updated to the user, I would like to add a local notification to the notification bar. This is not a push notification use case since this is not triggered by server.

Answer 1

Worklight does not provide API for local notifications in either Android or iOS.
To add this functionality you will need to either:

• Implement on your own native API provided by the platform by implementing a Cordova plug-in to interface with it, or
• Find an existing Cordova plug-in that does this and use it in your application

You can read through the following questions which touch base on the same topic:

• How can i create local Notification in worklight
• Using katzer local notification in IBM Worklight

The Katzer Cordova plug-in mentioned above is not trivial to implement (because Worklight also does not support using Cordova Plug-man to 'install' some existing Cordova plug-ins, so it requires extra manual tinkering), but it does work (tested at least in Android).