receiving notification in the mobile status bar

[limaLuciano Lima]

I would like to create  an app that receives an alert and notifies the user even when the app is not currently running.

 If it's not running, the user would receive a notification in the status bar, which could be viewed by pulling down the status bar.

Tapping on the notification would display the message. 

There is already a tutorial for the Classic Version. (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/content/alertme.html).

I would like to know if there is way to do this in the New Version (App Inventor 2), even without recieving external messages, just from the aplication itself.

[Ghica]

As AI2 apps cannot run in the background currently, what you want to do is not possible.
Two remarks: The is work being done on making this possible and Taifun has an extension that allows for simple notofications, see puravidaapps.com
Cheers, Ghica.

[Taifun]

There is already a tutorial for the Classic Version. (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/content/alertme.html).

you can do the same using the texting component also in App Inventor 2

however Google Voice will work only in the United States and not elsewhere

Taifun

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