Notification drawer seems full - New notification's get thrown away

Question

I'm using Push Notifications in my application and have noticed that if around 50+ notifications arrive the draw stops displaying any new notification that may arrive.

This situation should be rare within my application but its still possible and I'm trying to find out more information about it (since I can't find a mention of a limit anywhere) and the best way to deal with it (so far I'm thinking using SQLlite and storing the overdraw notifications and showing them when the user dismisses a notification).

Answer 1

Please do not show "50+ notifications". Please show one Notification, updated perhaps to reflect 50+ events.

This is covered:

• in the design guidelines (see "Stack your notifications")
• in the API guide
• in the Android Wear documentation (as people with Android Wear devices will get severely pissed at you for flooding their watch or whatever with 50+ notifications)