Firebase FCM notifications click_action payload

Question

I am trying to open a particular activity when the user clicks the notification when the app is in the background. From the Docs, I have got that click_action has to be added in the payload and an intent filter in the App to handle it. But, how to add click_action in the Firebase Notifications via Firebase Console? I am open to any other Work Around too. Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Now it is possible to set click_action in Firebase Console. You just go to notifications-send message-advanced option and there you will have two fields for key and value. In first field you put click_action and in second you put some text which represents value of that action. And you add intent-filter in your Manifest and give him the same value as you wrote in console. And that is simulation of real click_action.

Answer 2

If your app is in background, Firebase will not trigger onMessageReceived(). onMessageReceived() is called when app is in foreground . When app is in background,onMessageReceived() method will be called only if the body of https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send contain only data payload.Here ,i just created a method to build custom notification with intent having ur your required activity . and called this method in onMessageRecevied() .

In PostMan:

uri: https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send

header:Authorization:key=ur key

body --->>

{  "data" : {
      "Nick" : "Mario",
      "Room" : "PoSDenmark",

    },

  "to" : "xxxxxxxxx"

}

in your application.

class MyFirebaseMessagingService  extends FirebaseMessagingService {

 public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
       if (remoteMessage.getData().size() > 0) {
           sendNotification("ur message body") ;
        }
    }
private void sendNotification(String messageBody) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, Main2Activity.class);
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0 /* Request code */, intent,
                PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

        Uri defaultSoundUri= RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
        NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_stat_ic_notification)
                .setContentTitle("FCM Message")
                .setContentText(messageBody)
                .setAutoCancel(true)
                .setSound(defaultSoundUri)
                .setContentIntent(pendingIntent);

        NotificationManager notificationManager =
                (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

        notificationManager.notify(0 /* ID of notification */, notificationBuilder.build());
    }

 }

when the data payload comes to the mobile,then onMessageReceived() method will be called.. inside that method ,i just made a custom notification. this will work even if ur app is background or foreground.

Answer 3

You can handle all your actions in function of your message in onMessageReceived() in your service extending FirebaseMessagingService. In order to do that, you must send a message containing exclusively data, using for example Advanced REST client in Chrome. Then you send a POST to https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send using in "Raw headers":

Content-Type: application/json Authorization: key=YOUR_PERSONAL_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEY

And a json message in the field "Raw payload".

Warning, if there is the field "notification" in your json, your message will never be received when app in background in onMessageReceived(), even if there is a data field ! For example, doing that, message work just if app in foreground:

{
    "condition": " 'Symulti' in topics || 'SymultiLite' in topics",
    "priority" : "normal",
    "time_to_live" : 0,
    "notification" : {
        "body" : "new Symulti update !",
        "title" : "new Symulti update !",
        "icon" : "ic_notif_symulti"
    },
    "data" : {
        "id" : 1,
        "text" : "new Symulti update !"
    }
}

In order to receive your message in all cases in onMessageReceived(), simply remove the "notification" field from your json !

Example:

{
    "condition": " 'Symulti' in topics || 'SymultiLite' in topics",
    "priority" : "normal",
    "time_to_live" : 0,,
    "data" : {
        "id" : 1,
        "text" : "new Symulti update !",
        "link" : "href://www.symulti.com"
    }
}

and in your FirebaseMessagingService :

public class MyFirebaseMessagingService extends FirebaseMessagingService {

    private static final String TAG = "MyFirebaseMsgService";

    @Override
    public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
      String message = "";
      obj = remoteMessage.getData().get("text");
      if (obj != null) {
        try {
          message = obj.toString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
          message = "";
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }

      String link = "";
      obj = remoteMessage.getData().get("link");
      if (obj != null) {
        try {
          link = (String) obj;
        } catch (Exception e) {
          link = "";
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }

      Intent intent;
      PendingIntent pendingIntent;
      if (link.equals("")) { // Simply run your activity
        intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
      } else { // open a link
        String url = "";
        if (!link.equals("")) {
          intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
          intent.setData(Uri.parse(link));
          intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
        }
      }
      pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0 /* Request code */, intent,
          PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);


      NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = null;

      try {
        notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notif_symulti)          // don't need to pass icon with your message if it's already in your app !
            .setContentTitle(URLDecoder.decode(getString(R.string.app_name), "UTF-8"))
            .setContentText(URLDecoder.decode(message, "UTF-8"))
            .setAutoCancel(true)
            .setSound(RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION))
            .setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
        }

        if (notificationBuilder != null) {
          NotificationManager notificationManager =
              (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
          notificationManager.notify(id, notificationBuilder.build());
        } else {
          Log.d(TAG, "error NotificationManager");
        }
      }
    }
}

Enjoy !