Use Expo Notifications instead of Notifee

[ayushbgl]

Which package/packages do you use?

• @stream-io/video-react-sdk
• @stream-io/video-react-native-sdk
• @stream-io/video-client

Notifee is not being further developed and expo-notifications is pushed forward as an alternative by the notifee team.

Describe the solution you'd like
Since most of the RN projects now use expo (as recommended by React Native team itself), we should provide expo-notifications as a ringing solution.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternative is to use notifee, but over time it is not being supported by latest RN versions and have security flaws, where as expo-notifications are actively maintained by Expo team.

Additional context
Last commit in notifee library was 11 months ago. Here they recommend using expo-notifications.

[santhoshvai]

@ayushbgl We are currently actively working on moving the Android ringing part to using the native Telecom framework. And when doing so we will completely remove Notifee. We will move to doing the ringing notifications from native methods internal to our SDK.

[ayushbgl]

Thanks for the update! I previously used React Native CallKeep, which integrates with the native Android Telecom framework. In that setup, users had to explicitly grant the Phone permission through system settings for the app to display incoming call screens or manage calls. Interestingly, this behavior was unique to my app — other popular VoIP apps on the same device didn’t require those permissions and instead use custom in-app ringing UIs. On iOS, CallKit handles this natively without such permissions.

Just wanted to confirm that this implementation on Android doesn’t depend on the Telecom framework or require the Phone/Call permissions that most VoIP apps typically avoid.

[greenfrvr]

@ayushbgl hey! Android Telecom framework doesn't really provide system UI as CallKit on iOS does. VoIP apps still have to provide their own rining UI (and even notifications). permissions are required to be able to integrate VoIP calls on the system level, so that users could manage VoIP calls on smartwatches or Android Auto.
we're working on implementation which relies on Telecom framework, but we may consider making it optional.

[ayushbgl]

Is there any estimated timeline for this to release? I will plan my feature development accordingly. Thanks!