Permissions to include in Android Manifest for GCM Push Notifications

Question

Im trying to develop a cross platform application which will receive push notifications from Amazon SNS. The push notifications are working just fine for iOS, but for Android, im kind of at cross roads currently.

The push notifications are viewable when the Android App is focussed. However, no matter what variables related to ti.cloudpush i set(listed below).

The issue is - i am not able to get the push notifications to be shown in the notification tray.

CloudPush.showAppOnTrayClick    = true;
CloudPush.showTrayNotification  = true;
CloudPush.showTrayNotificationsWhenFocused= false;
CloudPush.singleCallback        =  true;

I guess this is related to Permissions that i might have to set iin the tiapp.xml for the Android Manifest section. I have included the list of permissions currently used below -

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <uses-sdk>14</uses-sdk>&gt;
    <manifest>
        <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14"/>
        <permission android:name="com.test.push.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" android:protectionLevel="signature"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="com.test.push.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
        <application>
            <receiver
                android:name="com.google.android.gcm.GCMBroadcastReceiver" android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND">
                <!-- Start receiver on boot -->
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.USER_PRESENT"/>
                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME"/>
                </intent-filter>
                <!-- Receive the actual message -->
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE"/>
                    <category android:name="com.test.push"/>
                </intent-filter>
                <!-- Receive the registration id -->
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION"/>
                    <category android:name="com.test.push.permission"/>
                </intent-filter>
            </receiver>
        </application>
    </manifest>
</android>

Could someone please let me know what i am doing wrong/ How to get this right ?

Any information/permissions related link would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this code :

app.js class :

/*
 Push notifications through device token.
 Steps : 
 1) Retrieve device token
 2) Subscribe for receiving notifications
 3) Notify
 4) Unsubscribe from receiving notifications
*/

 Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#000');

var GcmWin = Ti.UI.createWindow({
  backgroundColor : '#ccc',
  title : 'Android Cloud Push Notification'
});

var CloudPush = require('ti.cloudpush');
CloudPush.debug = true;
CloudPush.enabled = true;
CloudPush.showTrayNotificationsWhenFocused = true;
CloudPush.focusAppOnPush = false;

var deviceToken;
var Cloud = require('ti.cloud');
Cloud.debug = true;

var submit = Ti.UI.createButton({
  title : 'Retrieve Device token',
  color : '#000',
  height : 80,
  width : 200,
  top : 50
});

var subscribe = Ti.UI.createButton({
  title : 'Subscribe',
  color : '#000',
  height : 80,
  width : 200,
  top : 150
});
subscribe.addEventListener('click', subscribeToChannel);
GcmWin.add(subscribe);

var notify = Ti.UI.createButton({
  title : 'Notify',
  color : '#000',
  height : 80,
  width : 200,
  top : 250
});
notify.addEventListener('click', sendTestNotification);
GcmWin.add(notify);

var unsubscribe = Ti.UI.createButton({
  title : 'Unsubscribe',
  color : '#000',
  height : 80,
  width : 200,
  top : 350
});
unsubscribe.addEventListener('click', unsubscribeToChannel);
GcmWin.add(unsubscribe);

GcmWin.add(submit);

submit.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
CloudPush.retrieveDeviceToken({
    success : function deviceTokenSuccess(e) {
        alert('Device Token: ' + e.deviceToken);
        deviceToken = e.deviceToken;

    },
    error : function deviceTokenError(e) {
        alert('Failed to register for push! ' + e.error);
    }
 });
});

function subscribeToChannel() {
 // Subscribes the device to the 'test' channel
 // Specify the push type as either 'android' for Android or 'ios' for iOS
 Cloud.PushNotifications.subscribeToken({
    device_token : deviceToken,
    channel : 'test',
    type : Ti.Platform.name == 'android' ? 'android' : 'ios'
 }, function(e) {
    if (e.success) {
        alert('Subscribed');
    } else {
        alert('Error:\n' + ((e.error && e.message) || JSON.stringify(e)));
    }
});
}

function sendTestNotification() {
// Sends an 'This is a test.' alert to specified device if its subscribed to the 'test'  channel.
 Cloud.PushNotifications.notifyTokens({
    to_tokens : deviceToken,
    channel : 'test',
    payload : 'This is a test.'
 }, function(e) {
    if (e.success) {
        alert('Push notification sent');
    } else {
        alert('Error:\n' + ((e.error && e.message) || JSON.stringify(e)));
    }
});
}

function unsubscribeToChannel() {
// Unsubscribes the device from the 'test' channel
Cloud.PushNotifications.unsubscribeToken({
    device_token : deviceToken,
    channel : 'test',
}, function(e) {
    if (e.success) {
        alert('Unsubscribed');
    } else {
        alert('Error:\n' + ((e.error && e.message) || JSON.stringify(e)));
    }
});
}

CloudPush.addEventListener('callback', function(evt) {
 //alert(evt);
 alert(evt.payload);
});

CloudPush.addEventListener('trayClickLaunchedApp', function(evt) {
 Ti.API.info('Tray Click Launched App (app was not running)');
 //alert('Tray Click Launched App (app was not running');
});

CloudPush.addEventListener('trayClickFocusedApp', function(evt) {
 Ti.API.info('Tray Click Focused App (app was already running)');
 //alert('Tray Click Focused App (app was already running)');
});

In tiapp.xml just check this below lines.Add it, if not there :

 <modules>
    <module platform="commonjs">ti.cloud</module>
    <module platform="android">ti.cloudpush</module>
</modules>

This works for me. Hope this helps.