Pushes Test: Professional Notification Testing Tool, built by a dev for devs.
Verify your notification logic instantly on physical hardware — all without needing manual typing, a back-end server, or a Firebase console!
Why Developers Use Pushes Test:
Pushes Test is a professional D2D (Developer-to-Developer) utility designed specifically for Android engineers who need to emulate notifications on physical devices or master the nuances of the Notification API. This tool provides a high-fidelity local environment to verify exactly how the Android OS renders, groups, and prioritises different notification payloads. Built with a "Live Laboratory" philosophy, this app allows you to stress-test system behaviours, debug complex layouts, and verify high-priority interrupts across diverse hardware.
Core Testing Capabilities:
Comprehensive Behavioural Testing
Smart Mock Data: Instantly populate notifications with realistic developer scenarios (GitHub PR-s, Server Alerts, Security Logs) to test content rendering.
Sensory Controls: Verify "Silent" modes by toggling Sound and Vibration independently of system settings.
ID Logic: Toggle between "Overwrite" (fixed ID) and "Stacking" (unique IDs) to test how your device handles tray clutter and updates.
Bundling (Grouping): Trigger bundled notifications with a proper Group Summary to verify OS-level stacking logic.
Persistence: Test "Ongoing" flags to see how modern OS versions (Android 14+) handle non-swipeable alerts.
Full-Screen Intents: Verify high-priority "Alarm-style" interruptions (like VoIP calls) that wake the device and launch UI over the lock screen (Android 14+ compliant).
Chronometer: Add a live, system-managed timer to test active call or workout tracking UIs.
Stress & Timing Tests
Periodic Loops: Automate notification delivery at 10s, 30s, or 60s intervals to stress-test your system's listener, background handling, and device-specific throttling.
Delayed Delivery: Schedule pushes with custom delays to test device behaviour while the app is in the background, when the screen is off, or for "Do Not Disturb" exceptions.
Style & Layout Verification
Expansion Testing: Verify BigTextStyle expandable blocks and BigPictureStyle hero images. Test our logic-driven 40/60-character teaser to ensure the system expansion arrow remains visible by applying proprietary truncation rules to the collapsed view.
Rich Header Metadata: Toggle SubText hints ("Expand for details") and App Name visibility to check header space constraints on your specific device.
Image Assets: Test LargeIcon and BigPicture rendering and placement. Verify that your XML vectors are correctly converted to Bitmaps to avoid system UI artefacts (including cross-OEM flips like Xiaomi's start-side icon logic).
Inbox Style: Simulate list-based notifications (Email/Chat summaries) with intelligent multi-line chunking.
Tech stack: Kotlin, Compose, Material Design 3 (M3), MVI, Modular Architecture, Android Notification API (Channels, BigTextStyle, BigPictureStyle, InboxStyle, Full-screen Intent, Chronometer), CushyStorage (Internal Persistence Module), Anarchist (Internal Permission Module), GitHub Actions (CI/CD), JUnit 4, Mockito, Compose UI Testing, Gradle, TOML.