How to receive OS Push Notification in Android app?

[williamspete321]

If we select to use OS Notification, how can we set up our Android app to receive this notification from the Android OS? I assume we want to catch it in a Broadcast Receiver. Is there an action name that we define in a receiver in the Android Manifest to catch the Iterable notification?

<receiver android:name=".MyBroadcastReceiver" android:exported="false"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="ITERABLE_SPECIFIC_BROADCAST_HERE" /> </intent-filter> </receiver>

[Ayyanchira]

Hi @williamspete321! Thanks for posting the question. Pre-defined action names are used with notifications created by IterableSDK to be used by Iterable's BroadcastReceiver. Can you share the use case you are trying to solve with OS notification?

[Ayyanchira]

@williamspete321 , yes the question does make sense, but Im trying to understand further. OS notifications provide no customization. Do you intend to create notification using raw data?

[williamspete321]

@Ayyanchira We will handle the notification creation and customization ourself inside the Receiver class. But to first do that we need to catch the Intent object. If I send a Push Notification then the example Intent Filter I posted earlier does not catch this Intent. That is why I'm asking what the action name of the Iterable Push notification and if the intent-filter above is correct? Because we can't catch the Intent, I'm wondering if something is missing. Only when using the Iterable SDK do we catch the Intent in our main app. Because the Iterable web console gives us the option to let the Android OS handle the notification, I think there needs to be some documentation regarding what the name of the notification is that our Android OS needs to look out for.

[williamspete321]

"Do you intend to create notification using raw data?" Yes, we intend to create the notification ourselves with the Intent object we catch in the Receiver and any data that it contains. So we just need to dig a little and understand how to catch this Intent when we choose not to handle the Intent (notification) with the Iterable SDK.

[Ayyanchira]

For this use case, suggestion will be to NOT use OS notification.
To create custom notification using raw json data, we would recommend creating one with your own custom FirebaseMessagingService implementation.
This will allow app to intercept firebase messages sent from Iterable along with raw data. Raw data is accessible via remoteMessage.getData()
Intents to be created for any service or activity can be stored at this point before notification is posted.
Hope this helps.

[williamspete321]

Thanks @Ayyanchira, this is working nicely and we've been able to intercept the RemoteMessage object and build our own notification.