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Jon Helms
Jon Helms

Reputation: 187

UWP toast without vibrate?

I have an UWP app that does a background download and I have toast notifications on the progress, however I don't want it to annoy the user every time with sounds and vibration. I found the ToastAudio and set that with silent, now no sounds for progress updates which is great until I have a device with vibration. Now my phone was vibrating about every 2 seconds for the 3 minutes it took to download.

I've not been able to find a vibration option in the toast specs, is there one? For now I've limited my updates to every minute and when done to minimize the annoyance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 438

Answers (2)

Andrew Leader
Andrew Leader

Reputation: 985

Andrew from the Windows Notifications team here.

You should use a "ghost toast" for your scenario - the toast will silently go into Action Center without vibrating or alerting the user. To create a "ghost toast", set the ToastNotification.SuppressPopup property to true.

That way, the user can stay informed about your download by checking Action Center without the notification popping up, or making a sound, or vibrating. You don't even need to set your audio to silent - it will be muted if SuppressPopup is true.

Upvotes: 3

Konstantin
Konstantin

Reputation: 884

As far as I know, vibration on toast notifications is built-in behavior controlled by user. You can't override it, but you can offer user to change settings for your app thru the ms-settings:notifications protocol. Just in case - there are not options to open notification settings for specific app.

Upvotes: 1

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