Prompt Detail:
To display the number of notifications in a badge icon in React Native Expo, you can use the Notifications.setBadgeNumberAsync
method from the expo-notifications
library. Here's an example implementation:
javascriptimport React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { Notifications } from 'expo-notifications';
export default function App() {
useEffect(() => {
registerForPushNotificationsAsync();
Notifications.setBadgeNumberAsync(0); // set the badge count to 0 when the app is launched
const subscription = Notifications.addNotificationReceivedListener(handleNotification);
return () => subscription.remove();
}, []);
const registerForPushNotificationsAsync = async () => {
const { status } = await Notifications.requestPermissionsAsync();
if (status !== 'granted') {
alert('Failed to get push token for push notification!');
return;
}
const token = (await Notifications.getExpoPushTokenAsync()).data;
console.log('Expo push token:', token);
};
const handleNotification = (notification) => {
const { data: { badge } } = notification.request.content; // extract the badge count from the notification data
Notifications.setBadgeNumberAsync(badge); // set the badge count to the notification badge count
};
return (
<View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
<Text>My App</Text>
</View>
);
}
In the above example, we set the badge count to 0 when the app is launched using Notifications.setBadgeNumberAsync(0)
. When a notification is received, we extract the badge count from the notification data and set the badge count using Notifications.setBadgeNumberAsync(badge)
.
Note that you'll need to ensure that the badge
field is included in the notification data when sending push notifications from your server.