Android 4.1: How to check notifications are disabled for the application?
You can't 100% can't.
It is asked in this Google I/O 2012 video and the Project lead for the new notifications declares that you can't.
Edit
2016 update: Now you can check it, as said in this Google I/O 2016 video.
Use NotificationManagerCompat.areNotificationsEnabled()
, from support library, to check if notifications are blocked on API 19+. The versions below API 19 will return true (notifications are enabled).
Answer from @blundell is correct but there is a minor change in newer versions.
NotificationManagerCompat.from(context).areNotificationsEnabled()
Actually this is pretty easy to do:
/** * Created by desgraci on 5/7/15.*/public class NotificationsUtils { private static final String CHECK_OP_NO_THROW = "checkOpNoThrow"; private static final String OP_POST_NOTIFICATION = "OP_POST_NOTIFICATION"; public static boolean isNotificationEnabled(Context context) { AppOpsManager mAppOps = (AppOpsManager) context.getSystemService(Context.APP_OPS_SERVICE); ApplicationInfo appInfo = context.getApplicationInfo(); String pkg = context.getApplicationContext().getPackageName(); int uid = appInfo.uid; Class appOpsClass = null; /* Context.APP_OPS_MANAGER */ try { appOpsClass = Class.forName(AppOpsManager.class.getName()); Method checkOpNoThrowMethod = appOpsClass.getMethod(CHECK_OP_NO_THROW, Integer.TYPE, Integer.TYPE, String.class); Field opPostNotificationValue = appOpsClass.getDeclaredField(OP_POST_NOTIFICATION); int value = (int)opPostNotificationValue.get(Integer.class); return ((int)checkOpNoThrowMethod.invoke(mAppOps,value, uid, pkg) == AppOpsManager.MODE_ALLOWED); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (InvocationTargetException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IllegalAccessException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return false; }}