notify

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notify

Cross platform notifications for Gio applications.

Status

This repo is experimental, and does not have a stable interface. Currently notify only supports the following OSes:

• linux (x11/wayland doesn't matter so long as dbus is used for notifications)
• android
• macOS (support is preliminary; some code-signing-related issues)
• iOS (support is preliminary; some code-signing-related issues)

Use

See the package documentation of ./notification_manager.go for usage information.

Documentation

Overview

Package notify provides cross-platform notifications for Gio applications.

https://gioui.org

Sending a notification is easy:

notifier, _ := NewNotifier()
notification, _ := notifier.CreateNotification("hello!", "I was sent from Gio!")
notification.Cancel()

Index

• type IconNotifier
• type Notification
  • func Push(title, text string) (Notification, error)
• type Notifier
  • func NewNotifier() (Notifier, error)

Types

type IconNotifier

type IconNotifier interface {
	Notifier
	UseIcon(path string)
}

IconNotifier is a notifier that can display an icon notification.

type Notification

type Notification interface {
	// Cancel a notification.
	Cancel() error
}

Notification handle that can used to manipulate a platform notification, such as by cancelling it.

func Push

func Push(title, text string) (Notification, error)

Push a notification to the OS.

type Notifier

type Notifier interface {
	CreateNotification(title, text string) (Notification, error)
}

Notifier provides methods for creating and managing notifications.

func NewNotifier

func NewNotifier() (Notifier, error)

NewNotifier creates a new Manager tailored to the current operating system.