Flutter local notification icon not showing

Question

I have an application using Package Flutter Local Notification for showing notifications. Everything is fine, I can show the notification. The problem is my image as icon notification does not show, only full color of my image.

What I have done:

• Setting InitLocalNotification like documentation

   void initLocalNotification() async { _androidInitializationSettings = AndroidInitializationSettings('app_icon'); _iosInitializationSettings = IOSInitializationSettings( onDidReceiveLocalNotification: _onDidReceiveLocalNotification, ); _initializationSettings = InitializationSettings( _androidInitializationSettings, _iosInitializationSettings, ); await _flutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.initialize( _initializationSettings, onSelectNotification: _onSelectNotification, ); }

• Set structure folder like documentation

  

• Resize my logo like logo in documentation (Width: 36px, Height: 36px, Background: Transparant, Extension: .png)

  

Even though I have done the above method, my image icon is not showing, only the color.

Result (does not work)

After that, I tried to change my image with image from documentation, and that is working. Image icon is shown in notification.

Image from documentation

Result (works)

Did I missed something?

Answer 1

If your icon displays as rectangle on release build and you are sure that your icon matches notification icon guidelines then you should try to disable shrinking resources in build.gradle:

buildTypes {
    release {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        shrinkResources false
    }
}

Answer 2

 NotificationDetails(
        android: AndroidNotificationDetails(
          channel.id,
          channel.name,
          channelDescription: channel.description,
          icon: '@mipmap/ic_notification_no_bg',
          styleInformation: BigTextStyleInformation(''),
        ),
      ));

You need to provide a icon which does not have any background in AndroidNotificationDetails so App will pick this icon for Android version 11 for other versions it will pick default launcher Icon

Answer 3

For anyone looking at this. The problem here comes from the shape of the icon. In most android version the notification icon is just a shape filled with a color (such as the F of flutter). A rectangular icon with no transparency will be a rectangle filled with a color.

Some constructor, such as Samsung, show the actual image in some of their software version.