(New to this community, so feel free to guide me for question format or anything else)
I am currently building an Instagram-like mobile app, where users upload a feed, press likes, comment, and reply. I am facing such questions regarding Push Notification:
When a user logs into my app, how will their device token be registered into AWS SNS endpoint through AWS LAMBDA? (I have succesfully manually updated to Dynamo DB, but I want them to automatically be updated to endpoint when notification authorization is granted).
When my Feed/Post receives 'likes' or 'comments', how should that be notified to the original poster (OP) ?
No need to answer both questions, and any opinions are highly appreciated in advance.
P.S. I'm using React Native and AWS Amplify, in fucntional component
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I'm setting up a React Native app to, essentially, send messages between devices (it's not a chat app in practice but technically that's what it's doing). I've decided to use Firebase and the RN Firebase library to manage this.
I've finally got my iPhone receiving notifications from the Firebase notification composer. But it's saying I need an XMPP server in order to send messages from devices.
I do see the example in the RN Firebase docs but I'm hoping to do this app severless, just using Firebase for messaging, db, what have you.
I'm going through docs on Firebase (searching their site for XMPP) but it's not quickly clear, so I'm posting here to see if anyone can point me to instructions to quickly set this up in Firebase itself without running my own server (or that someone would know whether it's possible).
I have a fairly straight forward Flutter app which incorporates some "social" features, such as the ability for users to add other users as friends.
When a friend request is "send", a record is added to the Firebase to represent the (pending) friendship. I would like the user "receiving" the friend request to get a notification.
I've looked up a dozen or more posts on using local notifications and FCM, but all I can find are bare-bones PoC style examples. I'm at a loss to understand which methodology is correct for this situation.
Can FCM somehow listen for changes on the database, so when the friend request record is created, it would then push a notification? Or should the receiving user's app be listening for changes to the friend requests and push a local notification?
I'm at a loss for where to start.
Thanks in advance!
The answer is "You have to make your backend listen for changes on the database and send FCM".
If you are using firestore as your database, you can use cloud functions to listen to the changes made to your database. You can read more about it here:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/extend-with-functions
If you are using a backend of your own, you can make the backend send FCM to a user using the firebase admin sdk for whatever language you are using.
As far as I understand messages on subscribed topics are received through the socket connection.
So while the app is running in the background I could create local notifications and "fake" notification that pop up on the home screen and are visible in the notification center.
But is there a way to receive topic pushes if the app is closed/not running in the background?
I'm grateful for any kind of feedback as I couldn't find any documentation regarding that specific use case.
Just to clarify: I am talking about (subscribed) topic messages in firebase NOT the firebase messages. I am used to the generic iOS push notifications handling and the involved lifecycle methods. All I need to know is how firebase topic messages can be sent via apns notifications.
With Firebase Messaging you can send notifications so the app is closed (it must be installed), basically it is configured in the AppDelegate the methods and configuration according to your need, you can see more information here Firebase Messaging
No you can’t, setup your configration in apo delegate and firebase settings, when the app is offline firebase talked directly to the APN which called the nitification center in your iphone but you don’t have access on it during the application is closed.
I integrated Firebase Cloud Messaging with Unity successfully and I can receive usual messages when I send them from Firebase Console, but I need some extra things.
1 - How can I send my notification as a URL? I mean I want that when user touches the notification it opens the URL that I put in the value in FireBase Console.
2 - How I can send and show a picture and a custom icon in the notification?
Unfortunately, I can't find anything on the internet and official documents confused me.
Is there any way to gain these request only with FireBase SDK?
Thank you.
You have to handle all the messages from FCM manually to get all those features you are looking for. I mean you got the general implementation all the stuff, but you need the unique one. All the notification display settings and notification click handlers have to be implemented on the Android native side.
Probably you will find some interesting FCM asset in the Asset Store with nice notifications customization, not sure. But I would recommend you to surf the Asset Store, maybe there will be some useful packages.
We are about to switch to Firebase notifiaction API from Parse.com (that are retiring their service in jan 2017) to send push notification to our android and iOS Apps.
My question now is that I can't see any statistics about counts of successful deliveries and opens in the Firebase Console for a specific message ? The only thing we get when posting to https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send is a message_id
{"message_id":123456789}
But I havn't seen any documentation on a api how to follow up a sent message with this message_id. And the Firebase console has only the these kind of stats for messages created in the Console Gui, not the one create through an api post.
These stats was availible in Parse.com. But it seems as Firebase Cloud Messaging is a bit more low level, and perhaps these stats doesn't come out the box, so they might have to be custom made in a logging app etc by sending back events from the apps when messages as received and opened etc. Or is there a standardized way that I've missed when reading the Firebase Notification api docs ?
When you send notifications from the Firebase Notifications console, you get statistics about how many people received and opened the messages. But there is no API (yet) for Firebase Notifications.
If you're using the Firebase Cloud Messaging API (https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send), the message statistics don't show up in the Firebase Notifications console. You can (as AL. says) get delivery statistics in the Google Play Developer Console in that case.
firebase allows you to view sent/delivered/opened statuses by default from their website
http://console.firebase.google.com
at the notification section
but I am not sure about the parse.com implementations
also if you are a new comer to firebase let it collect user data for about 24 hours after successfully migrating to firebase
I found that in the first day the notifications weren't really reporting immediately
I think you're looking for the FCM Diagnostics and Statistics feature.
However, this is not visible in the Firebase Console, only in your Google Play Developer Console. And the feature only works if your app is at least in Alpha Testing.