Disable sound from NotificationChannel

Question

Today I started targeting API 26 which forced me to use Notification Channels.

My problem is that now on each new notification (including updates to it) an annoying

Answer 1

I faced the same issue in the 8.1 and made the below changes. Change the priority of the notification as LOW and it will disable the sound of notification.

NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW

The code is like following:

NotificationChannel chan1 = new NotificationChannel("default", "default", NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW);