[HOLD for Payment 2024-09-24] Implement Android conversation notifications

[arosiclair]

In Android 11, conversation notifications were added that offer a richer notification experience for messaging.

Conversation notifications are placed highest in the notification shade and prominently display avatars and names with the app's logo in the corner. Individual notifications can be marked as a priority allowing them to cut through Do Not Disturb settings. This is very similar to communication notifications which we implemented for iOS here.

• Android docs

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bfitzexpensify (NewFeature), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/14418#:~:text=BugZero%20process%20steps%20for%20feature%20requests for more details.

[arosiclair]

FYI this is a copy of the old internal issue here: https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/258528

[arosiclair]

From the docs, we need to implement these to get conversation notifications

• The notification uses MessagingStyle.
• (Only if the app targets Android 11 or higher) The notification is associated with a valid long-lived dynamic or cached sharing shortcut. The notification can set this association by calling setShortcutId() or setShortcutInfo(). If the app targets Android 10 or lower, the notification doesn't have to be associated with a shortcut, as discussed in the fallback options section.

Which means we should just need to implement sharing shortcuts. I'm going to look for a contributor to work on this.

@robertKozik you worked on our last issue for clearing notifications on Android. Would you be interested in working on this as well?

[staszekscp]

Hey @arosiclair! I can take care of this feature, because currently I work on the HybridApp, where we will refactor notifications in order to make sure they work for both OldDot, and NewDot. However, could we slightly wait with implementation of this feature? I just want to make sure that the notifications work fine after the refactor, and then, as a follow-up, I will add the conversation notifications on Android.

[arosiclair]

Makes sense I'll assign you and put this on hold. Keep us updated 🙏

[bfitzexpensify]

Still held @staszekscp?