Have you ever looked at the Android System settings page for a specific application and wondered about the option to view “Additional settings in the app”? If you haven’t seen this before in your settings, or aren’t aware of it, this is what it looks like
This option allows developers to essentially provide a link to a push notification settings screen in their application – this allows users to quickly and easily continue altering their notification settings for the chosen app directly from the system. The ability to hook into this was added at API level 21 (Android 5.0), but not all applications are making use of the feature.
To add this to your app we simply need to make use of the Notification Preferences Intent Category to define which activity to be launched when this link within the system settings is pressed. By default if our application has not make use of this Intent Category then the option within settings will not be displayed. If you want to display this option within your settings for your users then all you need to do is the following:
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<activity android:name=".PushSettingsActivity"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.NOTIFICATION_PREFERENCES" /> </intent-filter> </activity> |
