Badge notifications on latest beta

[davsto]

Updated to latest beta (v1.18.0-1387 on google play) and badge notifications (message counter on app icon) not working on EMUI launcher (Huawei Mate 9 Oreo 8.0).
Uninstalled and did clean install of the beta and badge notifications not present anymore in the launcher or app settings.
Uninstalled the beta and reverted to v.17.0-1324 and badge notifications present and working correctly. It seems the latest changes for Android 8 optimisation have broken the badge notifications - at least on Huawei devices.

[Nadejda Fudulska, MobiSystems, AquaMail support]

Hi,

There are two settings to check / adjust before this works.

1 – Phone settings -> Apps -> Aqua Mail -> Notifications -> enable “Show bagde”.

This however will only trigger on single-message notification, so you’ll have either nothing or a “1” on the badge.

To make it work for multiple-message notifications, please:

2 – Aqua Mail settings -> message notifications -> enable “Smart Watch enhancements”.

This also changes how on-phone notifications look. You’ll be able to expand (swipe down) on a notification that’s “about” more than one message, turning into individual “cards”, one per message, each with its own action buttons (mark read and so on).

This “enhanced” notification style – which first appeared in Android 7.0 – works with the new Samsung badge feature as expected, even when there are multiple unread messages.