A common situation that as Android Developers we deal with is keeping our app’s users up-to-date with what is going on when they are not using our app. The Android SDK provides us with a fully integrated API to do this: Notifications.

Notifications are messages that developers can program and send to the OS to be shown outside of our amazing UI so if the user is not using the app, he or she won’t miss an important event. Sometimes, our app may send a lot of notifications that can affect how the user perceives our features, potentially leading to…