Hello team,

1. Summary

I'm trying to implement a simple foreground service notification and everytime I create a notification it creates as a dismissable notification.

2. Enviroment

expo: 53.0.19
react-native: 0.79.5
react: 19.0.0

3. Platform

This problem happened on:

• Android Emulator API 35
• Android Device Version 15

4. Steps to problem

1. Install @notifee/react-native: npm install @notifee/react-native
2. Generate development build: eas build --profile android --platform development
3. Install development build on device and on emulator
   3.a. on Emulator, create prebuild to generate necessary files to run on emulator.
4. Register the foreground service on my App.js file

import notifee from '@notifee/react-native';

notifee.registerForegroundService(notification => {
  return new Promise(() => {
    console.log('Foreground service:', notification);
  });
});

5. Create a notification

const handleStartNotificationService = async () => {
    const channelId = await notifee.createChannel({
      id: 'foreground-service-notification',
      name: 'Test channel',
      importance: AndroidImportance.HIGH,
      visibility: AndroidVisibility.PUBLIC,
    });

    try {
      await notifee.displayNotification({
        title: 'Foreground service',
        body: 'This notification will exist for the lifetime of the service runner',
        android: {
          channelId,
          asForegroundService: true,
          color: '#0020FF',
          colorized: true,
          importance: AndroidImportance.HIGH,
          visibility: AndroidVisibility.PUBLIC,
        },
      });
    } catch (error) {
      console.error('Error starting notification service:', error);
    }
  };

6. Call in on a button

<Button title={'PRESS ME'} onPress={handleStartNotificationService} />

7. On pressing notification is created
   7.a. a console.log on notification inside my registerForegroundService shows the following:

{"android": {"asForegroundService": true, "autoCancel": true, "badgeIconType": 2, "channelId": "foreground-service-notification", "chronometerDirection": "up", "circularLargeIcon": false, "color": "#0020FF", "colorized": true, "defaults": [-1], "groupAlertBehavior": 0, "groupSummary": false, "importance": 4, "lightUpScreen": false, "localOnly": false, "loopSound": false, "ongoing": false, "onlyAlertOnce": false, "showChronometer": false, "showTimestamp": false, "smallIcon": "ic_launcher", "visibility": 1}, "body": "This notification will exist for the lifetime of the service runner", "data": {}, "title": "Foreground service"}

9. On sliding notification horizontally it is succesfully dismissed

4.a Expected behavior

On step 8. Notification stays fixed

5. Final considerations

I would love to use this library but I couldnt figure it out how to make this work as I intend it to.

Thanks in advance for anyone trying to help, I will work a few days more to try and find a solution. If I succeed I will post it here.