I am using pyFCM on a remote server to push event notifications to my app. The notification has a data payload as well, and this is needed for making some UI changes.
When the server app sends the app a notification, there is a notification that pops up on the phone, pressing which causes the default activity to be opened. Also, I have overridden the onMessageReceived in the service extending FirebaseMessagingService, and the data payload is then taken from the message and processed.
I have seen multiple questions on SO like these:
- How to open Fragment on click of push notification
- Open fragment from notification when the app in background
- How to open fragment page, when pressed a notification in android
- Open a fragment when press a notification in android
One thing in common with all the above SO questions is that they involve building a notification using Notification.Builder, and then setting up an Activity to open (or it's onNewIntent to be triggered depending on whether it's android:launchMode is "singleTop" in the Manifest ) . My distinct understanding is that this would work if FCM were used to send the app a data message and not a notification.
The question(s)
What I really fail to understand is how setting up a notification after the data is received from FCM helps me change the behaviour of the notification received from FCM's push. Is that even possible, or have I gotten something wrong?
The second part to this question is: How do I handle a user click on a push notification to load a specific fragment in my activity (when I am not the one creating the fragment in the app - just received via FCM)?
This is the current code that runs in my app.
The onMessageReceived code is :
@Override
public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessagenew) {
this.remoteMessage = remoteMessagenew;
super.onMessageReceived (remoteMessage);
database = MyDatabase.getDatabase(getApplication());
appuser = database.AppDao().getUserDetails();
Log.d(TAG, "onMessageReceived: ");
Log.d (TAG, "onMessageReceived: #########################################################");
Log.d (TAG, "onMessageReceived: #########################################################");
Log.d (TAG, "onMessageReceived: Message Data is : " + remoteMessage.getData ());
Map messageData = remoteMessage.getData ();
// Broadcast
args = new Bundle ();
int stage = 0 ;
Log.d (TAG, "onMessageReceived: ");
if(messageData.containsKey ("otherid")) {
incidenthandler(messageData);
} else if(messageData.containsKey ("itemid")) {
itemhandler(messageData);
}
}
The item handler to handle the data to refresh on the app screen
private void itemhandler(Map messageData) {
messagebody = remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody();
if(messageData.containsKey("itemid")) {
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: UPDATING");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
String item = (String ) messageData.get("itemid");
JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
JsonObject jsonObject = (JsonObject)jsonParser.parse(item);
item refreshedItem = parseFromJson(jsonObject);
database.revivDao().upsert(refreshedItem);
} else {
// this really shouldn't happen, but putting in a scenario where this does
// syncing the db with the app
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: REFRESHING ");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
// this triggers a call to my intentservice to refresh the db
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: refreshing items");
Intent intent = new Intent ("refreshitems");
Bundle clickdata = new Bundle();
data.putString("item_sub1", item_sub1);
data.putString("item_sub1", item_sub1);
intent.putExtra("data", clickdata) ; // add Bundle to Intent
localBroadcastManager.getInstance(getApplication()).sendBroadcast(intent); // Broadcast Intent
}
String itemid = messageData.get("itemid").toString();
try{
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: sending localbroadcast");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
Log.d(TAG, "itemhandler: #######################");
// this is where I try and switch to the screen to display some info - if the app is running
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent("switchtofragment");
notificationIntent.putExtra("launchitemfragment", true);
notificationIntent.putExtra("itemid", itemid);
notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
if(localBroadcastManager == null) localBroadcastManager = LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(getApplication());
localBroadcastManager.sendBroadcast(notificationIntent);
// now override the notification to load the fragment on click
setupNotification(itemid, messagebody);
notificationManager.notify(1, builder.build());
} catch (NullPointerException e){
return;
}
}
Finally, the function to handle the notification:
private void setupNotification(String housecallid, String message) {
//Log.d(TAG, "setting up notification");
String idChannel = ANDROID_CHANNEL_ID;
Context context = getApplicationContext();
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Reviv.class);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
notificationIntent.putExtra("housecallid", housecallid);
notificationIntent.putExtra("launchhousecallfragment", true);
Bundle extras = new Bundle();
extras.putBoolean("launchhousecallfragment", true);
extras.putString("housecallid", housecallid);
notificationIntent.putExtras(extras);
notificationIntent.putExtra("data", extras);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this,0, notificationIntent,
PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
if(notificationManager == null )
notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context, null);
builder. setSmallIcon(R.drawable.heart)
.setLargeIcon(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.heart))
.setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
.setContentTitle("Reviv")
.setContentText(message);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
if(notificationChannel == null) {
notificationChannel = new NotificationChannel(idChannel, context.getString(R.string.app_name), importance);
// Configure the notification channel.
notificationChannel.setDescription("Reviv Housecall Notification");
notificationChannel.enableLights(true);
notificationChannel.setLightColor(Color.RED);
notificationChannel.setVibrationPattern(new long[]{100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 400, 300, 200, 400});
notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(notificationChannel);
builder.setChannelId(idChannel);
builder.setAutoCancel(true);
}
} else {
builder.setContentTitle(context.getString(R.string.app_name))
.setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_HIGH)
.setColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.transparent))
.setVibrate(new long[]{100, 250})
.setLights(Color.RED, 500, 5000)
.setAutoCancel(true);
}
builder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
}