Notifications plugin when app not active

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Hello everybody,

I am testing the notification plugin with Firebase.

I managed to register the device and receive a notification sent from firebase console when the app is active.

But how to receive a notification when the application is not active?

Can someone help?

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Hi @Lourenco,

It will help if you provide more details for others (and staff). Which exact plugin, “plugin.notifications.v2”? Which platform, iOS or Android? What does your “config.lua” file look like? Etc.

Thanks,

Brent

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Hi Brent,

I am using “plugin.notifications.v2” and testing on an iPhone device.

Here is my config.lua :

application = { content = { width = 320, height = 480, scale = "letterbox", }, application = { notification = { google = { projectNumber = "594235633861", }, iphone = { types = { "badge", "sound", "alert" }, }, }, }, }

and my main.lua :

local notifications = require( "plugin.notifications.v2" ) local deviceToken = notifications.getDeviceToken() local launchArgs = ... local function onNotification (event) if event.type == "remoteRegistration" then -- device registered deviceToken = notifications.getDeviceToken() native.showAlert("remoteRegistration", deviceToken, { "OK" }) else -- A push notification received native.showAlert("Push received", "message", { "OK" }) end end if ( launchArgs and launchArgs.notification ) then onNotification ( launchArgs.notification ) end notifications.registerForPushNotifications( { useFCM=true } ) -- Set up a notification listener. Runtime:addEventListener("notification", onNotification)
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The primary issue I see is that you have a separate “application” table nested in the main “application” table within “config.lua”. That is not the correct structure… there should only be one top-level “application” table which contains the various child tables.

Brent

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Thank you Brent , modified the config.lua as follows.

But still, when app is inactive or in background, I get no notification.

application = { content = { width = 320, height = 480, scale = "letterbox", }, notification = { google = { projectNumber = "594235633861", }, iphone = { types = { "badge", "sound", "alert" }, }, }, }
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Are you not seeing the notifications show up in the status bar at the top of the device?

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Hello Rob,

finally got it working.

Seems that when APNS certificates are not uploaded on Firebase we receive notifications when app is active only.

I uploaded the APNS certificates and now I receive notifications whatever the state of the app.

Thank you for you help.