Sending local push notifications

Alerts, reminders, and updates for ongoing in-app processes are great use cases for local push notifications. It’s important to understand the difference between local and remote notifications. Local notifications are scheduled or triggered from within your app and do not come from a server. While local notifications can appear even if your app isn’t running, they must be scheduled in advance to achieve this.

In .NET MAUI, creating a local push notification is straightforward with the Plugin.LocalNotification library. By calling a few methods, you can send and manage notifications. In this recipe, we’ll build a basic app that sends a custom local push notification.

Figure 6.13 – Local push notifications demo

Important

The Plugin.LocalNotification library supports only Android and iOS. You can’t show notifications using it in Windows or macOS.

Getting ready

To follow the steps...