Android O reporting notification not posted to channel - but it is

Question

Couple Android O notification questions:

1) I have created a Notification Channel (see below), am calling the builder with .setChannelId() (passing in the name of th

Answer 1

You have to create a NotificationChannel first

val notificationChannel = NotificationChannel("channelId", "channelName", NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT)
notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(notificationChannel);

This is the only way to show notification for API 26+