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Please consider adding support for "live update" (Android) and "live data" (iOS) notification types

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#2,755 opened on Feb 16, 2026

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Please consider adding support on Android for the new "live update" notification type:

https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications/live-update

And adding support on iOS for the equivalent "live data" notification type:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/activitykit/displaying-live-data-with-live-activities

There is another Flutter package which provides this functionality, however it would be nice to consolidate with just flutter_local_notifications rather than fragmenting event types across multiple packages:

https://pub.dev/packages/live_activities

Thanks

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Research direction
Study the Android Live Update API (developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications/live update) and iOS Live Activities API (developer.apple.com/documentation/activitykit). Review the existing flutter local notifications plugin architecture to understand how to add new platform specific notification types. Look at the live activities package as a reference implementation.
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