Firebase onMessageReceived not called when app in

Question

I'm working with Firebase and testing sending notifications to my app from my server while the app is in the background. The notification is sent successfully, it even appears on the notification centre of the device, but when the notification appears or even if I click on it, the onMessageReceived method inside my FCMessagingService is never called.

When I tested this while my app was in the foreground, the onMessageReceived method was called and everything worked fine. The problem occurs when the app is running in the background.

Is this intended behaviour, or is there a way I can fix this?

Here is my FBMessagingService:

import android.util.Log;

import com.google.firebase.messaging.FirebaseMessagingService;
import com.google.firebase.messaging.RemoteMessage;

public class FBMessagingService extends FirebaseMessagingService {

    @Override
    public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
        Log.i("PVL", "MESSAGE RECEIVED!!");
        if (remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody() != null) {
            Log.i("PVL", "RECEIVED MESSAGE: " + remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody());
        } else {
            Log.i("PVL", "RECEIVED MESSAGE: " + remoteMessage.getData().get("message"));
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

according to the solution from t3h Exi i would like to post the clean code here. Just put it into MyFirebaseMessagingService and everything works fine if the app is in background mode. You need at least to compile com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:10.2.1

 @Override
public void handleIntent(Intent intent)
{
    try
    {
        if (intent.getExtras() != null)
        {
            RemoteMessage.Builder builder = new RemoteMessage.Builder("MyFirebaseMessagingService");

            for (String key : intent.getExtras().keySet())
            {
                builder.addData(key, intent.getExtras().get(key).toString());
            }



           onMessageReceived(builder.build());
        }
        else
        {
            super.handleIntent(intent);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        super.handleIntent(intent);
    }
}

Answer 2

Try this:

public void handleIntent(Intent intent) {
    try {
        if (intent.getExtras() != null) {
            RemoteMessage.Builder builder = new RemoteMessage.Builder("MyFirebaseMessagingService");
            for (String key : intent.getExtras().keySet()) {
            builder.addData(key, intent.getExtras().get(key).toString());
        }
            onMessageReceived(builder.build());
        } else {
            super.handleIntent(intent);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        super.handleIntent(intent);
    }
}

Answer 3

When message is received and your app is in background the notification is sent to the extras intent of the main activity.

You can check the extra value in the oncreate() or onresume() function of the main activity.

You can check for the fields like data, table etc ( the one specified in the notification)

for example I sent using data as the key

public void onResume(){
    super.onResume();
    if (getIntent().getStringExtra("data")!=null){
            fromnotification=true;
            Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Activity2.class);
            i.putExtra("notification","notification");
            startActivity(i);
        }

}

Answer 4

The backend I'm working with is using Notification messages and not Data messages. So after reading all the answers I tried to retrieve the extras from the bundle of the intent that comes to the launched activity. But no matter which keys I tried to retrieve from getIntent().getExtras();, the value was always null.

However, I finally found a way to send data using Notification messages and retrieve it from the intent.

The key here is to add the data payload to the Notification message.

Example:

{
    "data": {
        "message": "message_body",
        "title": "message_title"
    },
    "notification": {
        "body": "test body",
        "title": "test title"
    },
    "to": "E4An.."
}

After you do this, you will be able to get your info in this way:

intent.getExtras().getString("title") will be message_title

and intent.getExtras().getString("message") will be message_body

Reference

Answer 5

The point which deserves highlighting is that you have to use data message - data key only - to get onMessageReceived handler called even when the app is in background. You shouldn't have any other notification message key in your payload, otherwise the handler won't get triggered if the app is in background.

It is mentioned (but not so emphasized in FCM documentation) here:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options#notifications_and_data_messages

Use your app server and FCM server API: Set the data key only. Can be either collapsible or non-collapsible.

Answer 6

As per Firebase Cloud Messaging documentation-If Activity is in foreground then onMessageReceived will get called. If Activity is in background or closed then notification message is shown in the notification center for app launcher activity. You can call your customized activity on click of notification if your app is in background by calling rest service api for firebase messaging as:

URL-https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send

Method Type- POST

Header- Content-Type:application/json
Authorization:key=your api key

Body/Payload:

{ "notification": {
    "title": "Your Title",
    "text": "Your Text",
     "click_action": "OPEN_ACTIVITY_1" // should match to your intent filter
  },
    "data": {
    "keyname": "any value " //you can get this data as extras in your activity and this data is optional
    },
  "to" : "to_id(firebase refreshedToken)"
} 

And with this in your app you can add below code in your activity to be called:

<intent-filter>
                <action android:name="OPEN_ACTIVITY_1" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>