Creating notification intent with extra bundle doesn't work

Question

I'm trying to create an notification to launch an Activity with extra information. However, currently it is not working.

Here is the code for creating the notification

private void showNotification(RemoteMessage remoteMessage){
        try{
            // Create an explicit intent for an Activity in your app
            Intent i = new Intent(getBaseContext(), MainActivity.class);
            i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
            i.putExtra(EXTRA_MESSAGE,remoteMessage);
            PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, i, 0);

            NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
                    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_name)
                    .setContentTitle("Title")
                    .setContentText("Content")
                    .setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_HIGH)
                    .setCategory(NotificationCompat.CATEGORY_CALL)
                    .setAutoCancel(true)
                    // Set the intent that will fire when the user taps the notification
                    .setFullScreenIntent(pendingIntent, true);



            // notificationId is a unique int for each notification that you must define
            notificationId++;
            //https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/time-sensitive
            // Provide a unique integer for the "notificationId" of each notification.
            startForeground(notificationId, builder.build());
        }catch (Exception e){
            Log.d(TAG, e.getMessage());
        }


    }

The Activity is launching after clicking the notification. However, inside the onCreate of the Activity when checking for the extra in the bundle it doesn't find it:

EDIT: Actually what I want is for the activity to show without the user having to click anything hence why I am using setFullScreenIntent.

    if(bundle!=null && bundle.containsKey(CustomFirebaseMessagingService.EXTRA_MESSAGE)){
      Log.d(TAG, "MainActivity has extra message");
      
    }else{
      Log.d(TAG, "MainActivity doesn't have extra message");
    }

My logs say MainActivity doesn't have extra message

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 01 '20 at 20:43

1

Try

setContentIntent(pendingIntent)

Since you want an intent that will fire on the notification click, the docs for this method says:

Supply a PendingIntent to send when the notification is clicked.

answered Sep 01 '20 at 20:43

João Pucci

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Actually I want the Activity to launch as soon as that code is run ideally. If the user doesn't have to click a notification that is even better. – Joshua Augustinus Sep 01 '20 at 20:53
Hey your solution kinda worked. Now if the app is open and I get the notification and press it the Activity opens with the extra message. However, I don't get any notification or anything when the app is closed. – Joshua Augustinus Sep 01 '20 at 21:06
@Josh Then maybe try adding the flag PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT as the last parameter of your pending intent. Make sure to build the notification with setFullScreenIntent set. Also, if you're creating the notification from a push notification take a look [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42273699/how-to-stack-firebase-cloud-messaging-notifications-when-the-application-is-not/43914028#43914028) – João Pucci Sep 02 '20 at 01:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '20 at 12:19

You need to set the flag FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT when creating the PendingIntent:

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, i,
        PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

This will ensure that your "extras" are actually added to the PendingIntent.

Creating notification intent with extra bundle doesn't work

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