I am integrating RTC based audio/video calling feature in my flutter app. For now I am using FCM for push notifications. How can I display incoming call notification and screen like skype & whatsapp on my app when it is closed or in background.
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Most tutorials I've seen on the topic of notifications either broadcast notifications through the Firebase Console, or create in-app notifications that don't work if the app is in the background or is closed completely.
Is there a way to make notifications pop up dynamically using Flutter and Firebase even when the app is closed? Something like Whatsapp or Instagram notifications.
Reference image for what I mean by notifications like Whatsapp: https://www.techidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WhatsApp-Nootifications.jpg
You won't be able to generate dynamic notifications directly from Flutter. Since to do this, the App has to be active. Usually you would send these kind of notifications from some kind of backend. Google Cloud Messaging exposes an API for this, which allows you to send POST requests to an Endpoint, and Google handles the sending of the actual notification.
Check this article under the point "1. Send Notification"
https://medium.com/#selvaganesh93/firebase-cloud-messaging-important-rest-apis-be79260022b5
I have a Xamarin.Forms app. In it, I implemented video chat functionality (that supports iOS and Android) using IceLink. The video chat works when both the caller and the recipient have their apps open. Now I wonder how I can make a call to a device which has the app not open.
For Android
You can send notification by Firebase Cloud Messaging when device do not open, click the notification to open your application, show the video chat page.
If you use a high priority FCM for an app, it will allow that app to run services in the background for a short period of time. This would be a good alternative to having a background service that polls an app in the background:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/app-fundamentals/services/#background-execution-limits-in-android-80
For iOS
You can refer to Jack's reply.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60001529/10627299
I have completed an e-commerce app in ionic3. The problem is I want user to be notified when new offers or deals are added in our inventory. This should be a backend process, whether or not the app is open or close.
Note: There is no firebase involved.
If you want to use to get notification in same device then you can try Local notification native plugin for notification and if you want to send notification to other device then you have to use Push or FCM or Onesignal and yes this all required firebase to send push notification to generate device id/key.
I am sending push notifications using Flutter's firebase_messaging package and I send them in the firebase console. When the app is in the background or when it is closed, I am receiving the notifications, however, when the app is in the foreground it is not working. Please tell me if I need to integrate Javascript to make this feature work, and please reference a resource that I can use in order to figure out how I can integrate Javascript with fcm as I haven't found a way to do this with flutter.
I figured out that someone can use the flutter local notifications plugin so that when the push notification is sent and the app is on the foreground, normally no notification would be delivered to the system tray, but using the flutter local notifications plugin, it would be possible to send a local notification when the app is on the foreground.
To Understand better.
Have a look into this table.
https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_messaging#receiving-messages
It states that when your Android or iOS Application is in foreground, OnMessage callback is called if you are sending notification payload or data payload as notification body.
You are receiving notifications when your app is in background because, when an app is in background notification is send to system tray and OS (Android or iOS) handle it for you. And your app is launched when you click on notification from system tray.
When your app is in foreground you have to catch notification payload in onMessage and handle it explicitly, you can create local notification in this case.
I'm using Firebase for push notification. Problem is i want to send push notification for some mobile phones but when i'm sending push notification it will send notification to all installed mobile app
You would need to get the mobile token and then store it somewhere on your server.
Then you can send to specific devices using the mobile token.
Just in case, i actually wrote a full guide on how to implement push notifications to your ionic app here