Flutter FirebaseMessaging onMessage not working - firebase

Question

I am trying to push a notification to an IOS flutter app. My flutter main loop looks like this:
void main() async {
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
await Firebase.initializeApp();
print(await FirebaseMessaging.instance.getToken());
await FirebaseMessaging.instance.setForegroundNotificationPresentationOptions(
alert: true, // Required to display a heads up notification
badge: true,
sound: true,
);
runApp(MyApp());
}
And the initState() of MyApp() looks like this:
#override
void initState() {
super.initState();
FirebaseMessaging messaging = FirebaseMessaging.instance;
FirebaseMessaging.onMessage.listen((RemoteMessage message) {
print('Got a message whilst in the foreground!');
print('Message data: ${message.data}');
if (message.notification != null) {
print('Message also contained a notification: ${message.notification}');
}
});
}
I can't get any of the FirebaseMessaging streams to work. The onMessage/onMessageOpenedApp/onBackgroundMessage() won' work but if the App is closed I can push notifications. But still none of the above streams will have any content.
I push notifications via this python code:
import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import messaging
cred = credentials.Certificate("auth.json")
app = firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)
topic = 'test'
apns_config = messaging.APNSConfig(
payload=messaging.APNSPayload(
messaging.Aps(
mutable_content=False,
sound=messaging.CriticalSound('default')
)
)
)
notification = messaging.Notification(
title="FCM Message",
body="This is a Firebase Cloud Messaging Topic Message!"
)
# See documentation on defining a message payload.
message = messaging.Message(
data={
'score': '850',
'time': '2:45',
},
notification=notification,
#topic=topic,
token="token_of_device",
apns=apns_config
)
response = messaging.send(message, app=app)
print('Successfully sent message:', response)
Is there a way to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To test notifications on IOS you must have:
Mac (to run from XCode), IPhone (will not work on emulator, because it is the politics of apple: "get all the money from user"), apple dev account (100$/year), set up certificates, ask user for permissions and then test on real Iphone device