Can FCM push notifications in Electron App - firebase

I'm trying to send notifications from Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to a window app (window form for example) but it doesn't seem to be possible (since fcm only supports android/ios/webapp, for here and here).
So trying building Electron app to be able to receive and display notifications from fcm (slack is built from electron js and also displays notifications, here), and found the electron-push-receiver allowing it to receive notifications from FCM
But it seems that there is no update for a long time, so there is a issue#80
Now is it possible to build electron application that can receive notifications from FCM?
Thank you very much!

I just implemented FCM in my Electron app earlier today by following the guide here:
https://github.com/CydeSwype/electron-fcm-demo
Screenshot of FCM working in an Electron app
I was skeptical at first as well, given that the repo hasn't been updated in a while, but was pleasantly surprised that it still works.
If you have any further questions, go ahead and I'll try to help :)

I also got this working with electron-push-receiver, though I had to do a workaround for more recent versions of Electron.
I looked at the firebase-admin.messaging Node package but that is only for privileged environments.
The HTTP 503 issue you linked it seems was just another outage that has been resolved; I can still register for push notifications with this setup.

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Device-to-device messages with FCM and XMPP

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).

Sending a notification crashes app

I have a react-native app, and I thoroughly followed all the steps mentioned here to add Firebase to your app, and Add the SDK.
However, when I try to send my first notification using the Notification composer, my application simply crashes with the message "pushNotif has stopped working". This happenes regardless of background or foreground state.
Has anyone ever experienced this? does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
You should try react-native-fcm to implement FCM in react-native, then you'll be able to handle notifications in your react-native javascript code.

FCM console push test is currently broken? (Android)

I've been using FCM console(web) to test push notification for Android smartphone.
I use push token from Android device, but FCM console says "Completed" and it's not delivered.
It worked fine before, but recent few days, it's not working.
Is there anyone facing same problem?
I got an answer from FCM support team.
Thank you for that information.
It would seem that you are affected by the changes made between July
31 and August 1st. We rolled out a change to Firebase Notifications to
filter apps by GMP App Id rather than by package name. This change was
purely internal and should have had no effect on visible behavior as
all apps using Firebase should have had both package name and app id
set to match. However, we are now seeing some apps that have the wrong
app id set and this is causing messages to not be delivered (or in
some cases to be delivered to the wrong app if an app has the app id
of another app). These apps have a bug that was previously masked but
is now exposed.
We are investigating ways in which apps have sent these incorrect app
ids and ways in which we can catch them and warn app developers.
For now, the Firebase Notifications console will only work with apps
that use the FCM SDK. We recommend updating to the latest version of
the FCM SDK in order to mitigate the issue, but in case you don't want
to migrate to FCM SDK, you can still use your own server to send push
notifications.
Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused. Please let me
know if there's anything else I could help with.
Regards,

Twilio Chat push notifications

We are using the twilio-chat#1.0.4 JS SDK in our react-native app.
We're using react-native-push-notification#3.0.0 to handle the notifications.
The pushes are enabled and can see them coming through from twilio.
But I can't figure out how to turn on alerts.
I can (and currently do) issue a local notification when the app is in the background but we'd like to see the alert even if the app is closed.
How can we configure the push notifications to include an alert.
I had similar needs but the only difference in my case am using twilio native chat wrapper instead of the JS sdk.
To enable have push notifications working I ended up forking https://github.com/zo0r/react-native-push-notification and customizing it to support twilio push notifications which have custom payload than what you might be used to.
Check https://github.com/zo0r/react-native-push-notification/compare/master...Kabangi:master for the changes I made you might get some ideas from it.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Twilio Chat JS 1.1.1 was recently released and actually contains methods for dealing with push notifications.
Also, did you follow the instructions for React Native's PushNotificationIOS that explain how to setup your iOS application for receiving push notifications?

Local notifications with Unity (Firebase?)

Is there an easy way to implement local notifications from the Unity client?
I'm using Firebase for handling our push notifications (which are sent from our server), but I was wondering if there is an easy way to support local notifications?
I found this question: Firebase local notifications
But it is specifically to iOS.
I was wondering if there is a solution for Unity (without the need to write some iOS and Android plugins) where I can schedule local notifications from the client side.
It seems that for iOS you can do it directly from Unity, without iOS native code (like presented here).
For Android, you can use an existing plugin, like this, or this

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