How can I disable firebase notification on android client app

Question

I want to disable firebase notification service when the user turns off notification through settings.

I found questions on this topic:

Firebase on Android - I want to disable firebase notifications on Android client

and

android FCM enable/disable from application settings

but answers are an alternative way for ignoring notifications.

Is there any other way to unregister firebase notifications.

Thankyou

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '17 at 11:40

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Use this.

FirebaseMessaging.getInstance().unsubscribeFromTopic("X");

answered Jan 27 '17 at 11:40

josedlujan

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Thank you for the reply but I am not using any topic for notifications to unsubscribe. I want to unsubscribe a particular user. – Mayur Kharche Jan 27 '17 at 11:44
from the app o some functions? – josedlujan Jan 27 '17 at 11:45
@josedlujan have u got it working? Im also struck on the same issue. Can u please help me? – Mallikarjun Hampannavar Jan 12 '18 at 05:48
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Maybe i'm misunderstanding the usecases of FCM but the fact there's not a more direct way to do this if you don't have topic messaging enabled is really dumb – pingOfDoom Jul 07 '20 at 22:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '22 at 18:13

I was facing the same issue, and i don't have a backend service that sends the push notifications through the FCM API.

What i tried and is working is to override the "handleIntent" method on my FirebaseMessagingService implementation and checking there if user disabled notifications or not from the app to handle them.

The working code below:

class MyFirebaseMessagingService : FirebaseMessagingService() {

    override fun handleIntent(intent: Intent?) {
        // get from shared preferences if notifications are enabled

        val prefs = getSharedPreferences(MY_PREFS_NAME, MODE_PRIVATE) 
        val notificationsEnabled = prefs.getBoolean("notifications_enabled", false)

        if(notificationsEnabled){
            super.handleIntent(intent)
        }
    }

Hope it helps :)

Unfortunately only seems to work for me when the app is in the background, otherwise Firebase still pops the notification. — rjr-apps, Jun 30 '23 at 17:26
not working to me, FCM auto generate notification when app in background/killed state — famfamfam, Aug 21 '23 at 02:02

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '20 at 14:27

I spent a lot of time to find it out how to disable displaying push notifications when app in background. Everything is clear when app in foreground and you can handle everything in the app - when user switched off notifications in app settings, you just don't show notifications. But when app in background, Firebase handle everything somewhere under the hood and you cannot override methods of FirebaseMessagingService, because they are final. I found some very dirty solution and maby someone tell this is silly, but what I did is overrode onCreate of FirebaseMessagingService and did next:

    private void removePush(){
        new Handler().postDelayed(() -> {
            NotificationManager manager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 23) {
                StatusBarNotification[] notifications = manager.getActiveNotifications();
                for (StatusBarNotification n : notifications) {
                    if (n.getTag().contains("campaign_collapse_key_")) {
                        Logger.logD(TAG + ": Found firebase push. remove it.");
                        manager.cancel(n.getTag(), n.getId());
                    }
                }
            }
            else{
                manager.cancelAll();
            }
        }, 500);
    }

If this solution help someone - good. If you found better solution, let everyone know ;)

How can I disable firebase notification on android client app

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