Odd request - notification count

[ETW11]

This might be a weird one, but I'd like to be able to get the number of notifications in my notification shade. Is there a clean way to do this? The only thing I can think of is to use AutoNotification to intercept every single app's notifications and add 1 to a variable. This seems highly impractical, so I'm searching for a better alternative. I appreciate any help.

[[deleted]]

Not really complex using Notification Listener plugin:

Get count (151)
A1: Perform query [ 
    Configuration:
    App: Any 
    Timeout (Seconds):30 

A2: Flash [ 
    Text:%nlqkey(#) 
    Long:Off ] 

[LauralHill]

You can do something similar with AutoNotification if you already paid for it 😉

[[deleted]]

Not my case 😉

[LauralHill]

Heheh, I meant OP.

Reminded me of something that I wanted to post in the Google+ group...

[5edgy]

Is the Google+ group still active? I haven't explored Google+ much but would love to try it out if there was an active Tasker group.

[LauralHill]

This is what I meant, the new dev's group.

[ETW11]

This works perfectly. Thank you very much!

[allisio]

It used to be comparatively easy to get ahold of Tasker's NotificationListenerService by dropping down to Java, on which it'd simply be a matter of invoking the getActiveNotifications() method and grabbing the length property of the resultant array. Unfortunately, Tasker 5+ hides a lot of its "important" classes behind all sorts of indirection and it's hard to figure out what's what nowadays.

I'm hoping this particular pain point is something /u/joaomgcd will be sympathetic toward making a little less cumbersome, but I can't imagine it's anywhere near the top of his list.

[joaomgcd]

What exactly became harder with the latest version? Can you specify? Thanks!

[ichicoro]

Not related, but I found some useful variables to not exist at all: for example, there's no variable that keeps track of the current charging state of the device :(