How to handle notification when app in background

Question

Here is my manifest

    <service android:name=".fcm.PshycoFirebaseMessagingServices">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.google.firebase.MESSAGING_EVENT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </service>

    <service android:name=".fcm.PshycoFirebaseInstanceIDService">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.google.firebase.INSTANCE_ID_EVENT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </service>

When the app is in background and notification arrives then the default notification comes and doesn't run my code of onMessageReceived.

Here is my onMessageReceived code. This invokes if my app is running on foreground, not when app in background. How to run this code when the app is in background too?

// [START receive_message]
@Override
public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
    // TODO(developer): Handle FCM messages here.
    // If the application is in the foreground handle both data and notification messages here.
    // Also if you intend on generating your own notifications as a result of a received FCM
    // message, here is where that should be initiated. See sendNotification method below.
    data = remoteMessage.getData();
    String title = remoteMessage.getNotification().getTitle();
    String message = remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody();
    String imageUrl = (String) data.get("image");
    String action = (String) data.get("action");
    Log.i(TAG, "onMessageReceived: title : "+title);
    Log.i(TAG, "onMessageReceived: message : "+message);
    Log.i(TAG, "onMessageReceived: imageUrl : "+imageUrl);
    Log.i(TAG, "onMessageReceived: action : "+action);

    if (imageUrl == null) {
        sendNotification(title,message,action);
    } else {
        new BigPictureNotification(this,title,message,imageUrl,action);
    }
}
// [END receive_message]

Answer 1

To capture the message in background you need to use a BroadcastReceiver

public class FirebaseDataReceiver extends WakefulBroadcastReceiver {

    private final String TAG = "FirebaseDataReceiver";

    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Log.d(TAG, "I'm in!!!");
        Bundle dataBundle = intent.getBundleExtra("data");
        Log.d(TAG, dataBundle.toString());
    }
}

and add this to your manifest:

<receiver
      android:name="MY_PACKAGE_NAME.FirebaseDataReceiver"
      android:exported="true"
      android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
        </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Answer 2

Thanks to All of you for your Answers. But I solved this by sending data message instead of sending Notification. Server code

<?php
$url = "https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send";
$token = "C-l6T_a7HouUK****";
$serverKey = "AAAAaOcKS00:********";
define( 'API_ACCESS_KEY', $serverKey );
$registrationIds = array($token);
// prep the bundle

$msg = array

(
 'message'  => 'here is a message. message',
 'title'        => 'This is a title. title',
 'subtitle' => 'This is a subtitle. subtitle',
 'tickerText'   => 'Ticker text here...Ticker text here...Ticker text 
 here',
 'vibrate'  => 1,
 'sound'        => 1,
 'largeIcon'    => 'large_icon',
 'smallIcon'    => 'small_icon'

);

$fields = array

(
  'registration_ids'    => $registrationIds,
  'data'            => $msg

);
$headers = array

(
  'Authorization: key=' . API_ACCESS_KEY,
 'Content-Type: application/json'

);


$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt( $ch,CURLOPT_URL, 'https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send' 
);

curl_setopt( $ch,CURLOPT_POST, true );

curl_setopt( $ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers );

curl_setopt( $ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

curl_setopt( $ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );

curl_setopt( $ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode( $fields ) );

$result = curl_exec($ch );

curl_close( $ch );

echo $result;

?>

And caught the Data in onMessageReceived

public class MyFirebaseMessagingService extends FirebaseMessagingService     {

  private static final String TAG = "MyFirebaseMsgService";

@Override
public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
    Log.d(TAG, "From: " + remoteMessage.getFrom());

    // Check if message contains a data payload.
    if (remoteMessage.getData().size() > 0) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Message data payload: " + remoteMessage.getData());

      sendNotification(remoteMessage.getData().get("message"));
     }
   // Check if message contains a notification payload.
    else if (remoteMessage.getNotification() != null) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Message Notification Body: " + remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody());
    sendNotification(remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody());
    }


}
   private void sendNotification(String messageBody) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, Notify.class).putExtra("msg",messageBody);
    intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
    PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0 /* Request code */, intent,
            PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

    String channelId = "iffffdd";
    Uri defaultSoundUri= RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
    NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder =
            new NotificationCompat.Builder(MyFirebaseMessagingService.this)
                    .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
                    .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());
}
}

Answer 3

Using this code you can get the notification in background/foreground and also put action:

//Data should come in this format from the notification
{
  "to": "/xyz/Notifications",
  "data": {
      "key1": "title notification",
      "key2": "description notification"
  }
}

In-App use this code:

  @Override
    public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
        super.onMessageReceived(remoteMessage);
      String key1Data = remoteMessage.getData().get("key1");
      // use key1Data to according to your need
    }

Answer 4

According to docs

Handle messages in a backgrounded app

When your app is in the background, Android directs notification messages to the system tray. A user tap on the notification opens the app launcher by default.

This includes messages that contain both notification and data payload. In these cases, the notification is delivered to the device's system tray, and the data payload is delivered in the extras of the intent of your launcher Activity.

If you want to open your app and perform a specific action, set click_action in the notification payload and map it to an intent filter in the Activity you want to launch. For example, set click_action to OPEN_ACTIVITY_1 to trigger an intent filter like the following:

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

Edit :

Based on this thread :

You can't set click_action payload using Firebase Console. You could try testing with a curl command or a custom http server

curl --header "Authorization: key=<YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE>" 
     --header Content-Type:"application/json" https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send  
     -d "{\"to\":\"/topics/news\",\"notification\": 
         {\"title\": \"Click Action Message\",\"text\": \"Sample message\",
            \"click_action\":\"OPEN_ACTIVITY_1\"}}"

Answer 5

Simple summary like this

• if your app is running;

  onMessageReceived()
  

is triggers.

• if your app is not running (killed by swiping) ;

  onMessageReceived()
  

is not triggered and delivered by direclty. If you have any specialy key-value pair. They don' t work beacuse of onMessageReceived() not working.

I' ve found this way;

In your launcher activity, put this logic,

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState, R.layout.activity_splash);

    if (getIntent().getExtras() != null && getIntent().getExtras().containsKey("PACKAGE_NAME")) {

        // do what you want

        // and this for killing app if we dont want to start
        android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());

    } else {

        //continue to app
    }
}

in this if block, search for your keys according to firebase UI.

In this example my key and value like above; (sorry for language =))

When my code works, i get "com.rda.note".

android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());

with this line of code, i closed my application and open Google Play Market

happy coding =)

Answer 6

The easy way to send messages even if the app is in background and foreground as follow:- To send a message using API, you can use a tool called AdvancedREST Client, its a chrome extension, and send a message with the following parameters.

Rest client tool Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo

use this url:- https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send Content-Type:application/json Authorization:key=Your Server key From or Authoization key(see below ref)

{ "data": {
    "image": "https://static.pexels.com/photos/4825/red-love-romantic-flowers.jpg",
    "message": "Firebase Push Message Using API"
    "AnotherActivity": "True"
     },
  "to" : "device id Or Device token"
}

Authorization key can be obtained by visiting Google developers console and click on Credentials button on the left menu for your project. Among the API keys listed, the server key will be your authorization key.

And you need to put tokenID of the receiver in the “to” section of your POST request sent using API.