android check if "Allow sound" notification setting is enabled or disable programmatically

Question

So I have followed this link to solve my problem. but i think the answer is out dated. the code is not working.

int importance = manager.getImportance();
boolean soundAllowed = importance < 0 || importance >= NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT;

so this is condition i'm currently using to detect if sound of notification is on or off (where manager is object of NotificationManager class) . but it's not working.

i want to check if sound of notification is on or off. if it is off then notify user to turn it on.

thank you for reading

Answer 1

In your below code if user has not specified anything for notification or if he has Higher notification importance: shows everywhere, makes noise and peeks. Then your soundAllowed is true. I think you should remove importance < 0 so you will get this soundAllowed variable only true with user has gave higher importance to notification sounds

boolean soundAllowed = importance < 0 || importance >= NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT; // where default value is 3

Please check the values here for more clarity.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager#IMPORTANCE_NONE