# Android Nougat and rate limiting of notification updates

DevFeed: [Android Nougat and rate limiting of notification updates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/android-nougat-and-rate-limiting-of-notification-updates-29016.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://saket.me/android-7-nougat-rate-limiting-notifications/>)

Author: Saket Narayan

Published: 2017-08-28T11:23:55Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Saket Narayan](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/saket-narayan.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [rate-limiting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rate-limiting.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notifications.md>), [RxJava](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rxjava.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/notifications.md>), [nougat](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nougat.md>), [rate-limiting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rate-limiting.md>), [rxjava](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rxjava.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why progress notifications for image downloads can stop reaching 100% on Android Nougat and later. It attributes the behavior to Android notification-update rate limiting, which was reduced in Nougat, and describes using RxJava to throttle updates to about five per second. The author notes that the limit applies per package and that the issue is not fully solved.

## Source excerpt

While working on a feature for downloading images in my app, I ran into a strange issue where progress notifications were never reaching 100%. Knowing that the framework is usually not wrong, I started suspecting my own skills (as usual). To make matters worse, nobody was able to reproduce the issue in a sample project I shared with other [...] The post Android Nougat and rate limiting of notification updates appeared first on Saket Narayan.