iOS5 Push notifications, Are there any alternatives to the Notification Center? - push-notification

I have 2 related questions regarding the new push notification in iOS5:
If my application is not running in the background - Can the notification arrive to my application silently?
Can I revert back to the old modal popup UI for push notification? Can I do it programmatically only for my application notification while leaving all the rest using the notification center disappearing notification?

You can send a silent message by not providing the sound property with the push message.
You cannot revert back to the old modal popup.

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Handle Notification data without click on notification in ionic 3 (One signal push notification)

i am using Onesignal in ionic 3. I am getting notification properly when the app is in foreground. When I receive a notification in background i am getting the data in the notification only after tapping the notification. But i want to get the data without tapping on the notification.
You're looking for Silent Notifications (Silent Notifications are background notifications that do not show any message on the device)
Right now, you're likely using the onOpened handler. You will need to set up a service extension and be prepared to have to write native code!
https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/silent-notifications

iOS Push - display message if app is active

I'm implementing Push in a Xamarin Forms PCL project, and I'm having an issue with iOS.
If the user is actively using the app I want to display an alert to let them know they have received a notification and let them choose to View it (which changes the current page) or cancel.
If the app is not active, either in the background or not running, I want to go directly from the tap on the iOS notification to the notification page - no alert. I have this working if the app is not running.
If the app is running, either in the background or active, the RecievedRemoteNotifications function is called which will display the alert. I don't see a way in RecievedRemoteNotification to determine if the app was already active or if the user tapped the system-generated notification.
Check out the ApplicationState property from UIApplication.SharedApplication.
More information about the possible values here. There is a Background state.

Tapping on the app icon does not display the notification in the app

I am using the Event source-based notifications in hybrid applications sample from https://developer.ibm.com/mobilefirstplatform/documentation/getting-started-7-0/notifications/push-notifications-hybrid-applications/event-source-based-notifications
When I receive a push notification and I tap on the app icon instead of tapping the notification in the notification bar, the notification isn't pushed and still appearing on the notification bar. Only if I tap on the notification bar, even if the app is open, the notification is pushed and is deleted from the notification bar.
There are no problems if the app is open when I receive the notification.
How I can force the notification to be pushed when I tap on the app icon rather than tapping the notification in the notification bar?
MobileFirst 7.0.0
Android Environment
I have indeed reproduced this. It appears to be a regression.
After a push is received and you then tap either the incoming notification in the notifications bar or the app icon
the app is supposed to launch
you are then prompted to login
push support etc is checked for, and finally
if there's a notification in the queue then it is supposed to be displayed (the pushNotificationReceived function is supposed to be called). This is not happening when tapping on the app icon
If you are an IBM customer or business partner I suggest for you to open a PMR (support ticket). This is going to be investigated by the development team...

Push notification to iOS not working when message received

I have a Worklight app doing push notifications. Sending the push causes the notification to appear in the notification bar on both Android and iOS as expected. If the push is received while the app is running, it calls the message handler function as it is supposed to.
The issue I'm having is that if you launch the app by tapping on the notification on iOS, the message handler never gets called if another push is sent while the app is running. I have to exit the app and kill it completely, then relaunch the app from the launcher. Then if the push is received while the app is running, it will call the message handler.
This only occurs on iOS. The app will respond to a received message on Android while the app is running, even if the app has been launched by tapping on the notification.
EDIT:
I did struggle to verbalize the scenario, couldn't find the right words that made sense, but the steps you have done Idan are largely correct for what I'm trying to do. We are doing tag based notifications, so that is different that what you have done. We are also using PersistentCookieAuthentication as they wanted push notifications to be sent without the user having to explicitly logging in.
We are currently using WL build 6.2.0.01-20141216-0427
We've tried it on a couple of different models, an iPhone 4s running 8.0.2, and an iPhone 5 running 8.1.2.
Edit based on the edited question:
Tag-based notifications do not require any login, as it is the device that is to be subscribed to any tags that you define in application-descriptor.xml; it is not login-based, so any type of login that you are doing it irrelevant. The push will be sent to any device (app...) that was subscribed to your tag using the subscribeTag API.
I did another test in iOS using a broadcast-based notification (it's basically like tag-based notifications). I kept the app in the background and sent a notification. Tapping on the incoming notification in the notification bar brought the app to the foreground, which then displayed the alerts of the incoming notification.
You can try it with this application: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2yk2pbvykrzfoh/broadcastNotificationsTest.zip?dl=0
Make sure to place your own .p12 certificate and pushSender password.
I've been trying to understand your scenario... I suspect you've left out something or need to better word the problem description.
Here's what I've tried using MobileFirst Platform 6.3 (no drastic push changes in iOS between 6.2 and 6.3) and iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.2.
Launched sample push notifications app (which uses event source-based notifications) on device
Logged-in > Subscribed
Quit application
I then sent a notification by invoking the adapter in the Studio
The notification arrived and displayed in the notification bar
Tapping the notification launched application
Logged-in
The notification alerts were then displayed.
I then moved the application to the background.
Sent another notification, which was displayed in the notification bar upon arrival
Tapping this second notification brought the application to the background, displaying the alerts
I then kept the application in the background.
Sent a third notification
In this case, because the application is in the foreground, the notification did not display in the notification bar -- as expected -- and instead the alerts were displayed right away.
If your scenario is different than the above, such as: you're not even using event source-based notifications but rather broadcast- or tag-based notifications, or your application flow differs, etc then please edit the question with a more precise description.
When you edit the question, also mention the following:
Worklight version and build number
Device model
Used iOS version
I am aware of one possible issue (APAR #PI31988) that is currently under investigation, where the underlying native code dispatches the message before the JavaScript framework is ready to handle it, thus no message is displayed. This was found to happen in slower devices such as iPhone 4.

How to display a notification in worklight when returning to the foreground?

I am using push notification in worklight 6.2 in one of my apps.
I have a issue regarding receiving of notification. i receive notification when i am in the application .
When i close my app or made my app go background, i receive notification in the status bar and when i click on that,its taking me to the app ask for the authentication which is provided in the app and then goes to the inbox where all the messages are listed the new message is displayed .
But when i receive the notification when my apps is in background and see the notification in status bar and without clicking that notification if i opened the application and see the inbox page ,the message is not displayed because the function which will be executed when receiving notification is not called.
I need to give solution to avoid this. Is there any way or option to display the notification which is received when the app is in background and when the app is opened without opening the notification in status bar.
Thanks in advance
Perhaps you could use a the Cordova resume event, from which you will call the pushNotificationReceived() function as the callback function.
document.addEventListener("resume", pushNotificationReceived, false);
The basic premise is that if a notification was received while you were in the background, then once returning to the foreground the above should executed and the notification will be displayed.
Again, this is just the basic premise and you'll probably need to modify the pushNotificationReceived() implementation to account for what happens when you get back to the foreground but there are no notification (you could implement some logic to check that...) and various other scenarios, as you encounter them.

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