Not able to “Clear” notifications from Astrid Tasks (an app)?

Question

I am not able to clear notifications in the status bar for an app named Astrid Tasks.

Here is the screenshot:

Why is it? I am sure that the app developer must have done this on purpose.

What should I do to get it back?

Can someone give me a link where I could read about these practices?

Answer 1

In Astrid's settings, under Reminder settings there is an option to turn Notification persistence on or off. This determines whether or not notifications can be cleared with Clear All button.

Answer 2

Astrid Tasks uses notifications that cannot be cleared by clicking on the "clear" button. Why they did this is a question only the Astrid developers can answer, but my guess is the people from Astrid want to remind you of a task until you actually finish it and/or change its status in Astrid.

By default notifications on Android can be cleared, but an app developer can choose to make a notification not-clearable (if you want technical details on how to do this, go here). If there are any notifications that can be cleared, the clear button is enabled/visible but will not clear any non-clearable notifications when clicked.

Answer 3

Like THelper said.

There is no workaround for this as yet - so I am sorry to say that there is no way to remove the notification.

Answer 4

You can remove the notification by clicking on the notification and snoozing the task. The notifications is persistent so you can't accidentally be removed without having finished the task.