Notification Groups and the Notification Manager can be used together to simplify how users experience notifications. This sample demonstrates how the NotificationManager can tell you how many notifications your application is currently showing. It also shows how to manage the notifications as a group and introduce a summary for the group, when supported by the platform.

Notifications can now be grouped.

Starting with Android N, you can set notification groups for notifications and define a notification group summary.

Starting with Android M, you can query it for the active notifications that your app sent using the [notify][2] methods.

This sample demonstrates simple use of these features by allowing a user to add notifications and then query how many notifications are currently being displayed via the [getActiveNotifications()][3] method.

[2]: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager.html#notify(int, android.app.Notification) [3]: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager.html#getActiveNotifications()

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