# Local Notifications
##
iOS
You can manually trigger local notifications in your JS code, to be posted immediately or in the future.
Triggering local notifications is fully compatible with React Native `PushNotificationsIOS` library.
Example:
```javascript
let localNotification = NotificationsIOS.localNotification({
alertBody: "Local notificiation!",
alertTitle: "Local Notification Title",
soundName: "chime.aiff",
silent: false,
category: "SOME_CATEGORY",
userInfo: { }
});
```
Notification object contains:
- **`fireDate`**- The date and time when the system should deliver the notification (optinal - default is immidiate dispatch).
- `alertBody`- The message displayed in the notification alert.
- `alertTitle`- The title of the notification, displayed in the notifications center.
- `alertAction`- The "action" displayed beneath an actionable notification on the lockscreen (e.g. "Slide to **open**"). Note that Apple no longer shows this in iOS 10.
- `soundName`- The sound played when the notification is fired (optional -- will play default sound if unspecified). This must be the filename of a sound included in the application bundle; the sound must be 30 seconds or less and should be encoded with linear PCM or IMA4.
- `silent`- Whether the notification sound should be suppressed (optional).
- `category`- The category of this notification, required for [interactive notifications](#interactive--actionable-notifications-ios-only) (optional).
- `userInfo`- An optional object containing additional notification data.
### Cancel Scheduled Local Notifications
The `NotificationsIOS.localNotification()` and `NotificationsAndroid.localNotification()` methods return unique `notificationId` values, which can be used in order to cancel specific local notifications that were scheduled for delivery on `fireDate` and have not yet been delivered. You can cancel local notification by calling `NotificationsIOS.cancelLocalNotification(notificationId)` or `NotificationsAndroid.cancelLocalNotification(notificationId)`.
Example:
```javascript
let someLocalNotification = NotificationsIOS.localNotification({
alertBody: "Local notificiation!",
alertTitle: "Local Notification Title",
soundName: "chime.aiff",
category: "SOME_CATEGORY",
userInfo: { }
});
NotificationsIOS.cancelLocalNotification(someLocalNotification);
```
To cancel all local notifications (**iOS only!**), use `cancelAllLocalNotifications()`:
```javascript
NotificationsIOS.cancelAllLocalNotifications();
```
#### Cancel Delivered Local Notifications (iOS 10+ only)
To dismiss notifications from the notification center that have already been shown to the user, call `NotificationsIOS.removeDeliveredNotifications([notificationId])`:
```javascript
let someLocalNotification = NotificationsIOS.localNotification({...});
NotificationsIOS.removeDeliveredNotifications([someLocalNotification]);
```
Call `removeAllDeliveredNotifications()` to dismiss all delivered notifications
(note that this will dismiss push notifications in addition to local
notifications).
##
Android
Much like on iOS, notifications can be triggered locally. The API to do so is a simplified version of the iOS equivalent that works more natually with the Android perception of push (remote) notifications:
```javascript
NotificationsAndroid.localNotification({
title: "Local notification",
body: "This notification was generated by the app!",
extra: "data"
});
```
Upon notification opening (tapping by the device user), all data fields will be delivered as-is).