NOTIFICATION API FOR EXTERNAL IDENTIFICATION

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for providing notifications on an external device. In an implementation, a computing apparatus comprises one or more computer readable storage media, a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for automatically joining a user to a conference session. The program instructions direct the processing system to detect an invocation of an application and, in response to detection of the invocation, send a context request to an external device. The program instructions further direct the processing system to receive from the external device a context response comprising a notification type, determine whether the notification type corresponds with a meeting type, and automatically join a user to the conference session within the application if the notification type corresponds with the meeting type.