I noticed that some app like messenger clear their notification in phone even I viewed the message from web.I know it can be done by giving ID to notification when showing it and when it needs to be cleared we can send another event via FCM and clear the corresponding notification. Is there a proper way of doing it other than sending another event via FCM because it feels not the proper way of doing it for me.
I hope it will helpful Can you expire / remove a message remotely on FCM?.
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I want to show notification only app is close or background or in different chatroom. but I don't know which is better Solution.
stop send push notification when another device foreground
just send push notification anyway and don't show the notification in another device when app foreground.
In first solution I need to get another device information from server like in which chatroom or in which activity or in foreground it make my app and database more complex but maybe it reduce the network usage.
In second solution just send notification anyway and receiver device just ignore it but maybe big network usage.
Most apps that I know off use the second approach: they always send the FCM message, and only show it when needed. That also means that they usually only send a so-called tickle message, which contains very little data and whose main purpose it is to wake the app up.
I'm building a newspaper-like app and I would like to know how many people received the article's push notification vs how many actually read it.
I was thinking to implement a way in which when the notification is received the app wakes up and send a request to the server saying "Hi I'm _____, I've received the notification of the article ____" and store it in the database. Then afterwards if the user click on the notification and goes to read the article I send another request saying "Hi I'm ____ and I've read the article _____" and I also store it on the database. Afterwards with some queries I'm able to understand the percentage read/received.
I don't understand if it's even possible to wake up the app even if it was not opened by the user in a while and send a request to the server (for background is meant that the application is not launched or that is in the cache ?).
I would like to achieve what they did with Whatsapp:
I receive a new message on Whatsapp
I don't open the app
I go to WhatsApp Web
I open the conversation on WhatsApp Web
The badge and the notification on the phone goes away because I read it somewhere else
I think that that feature is achieved with silent push notifications that just update the app badge and clear the read notification.
Thats a very nice question on how to implement such silent notifications. There are few variables here that we need to consider and deal them in a different way.
Push notifications sent to the users - Some of them would have received it, Some may not have received it at all.
Pushing multiple notifications to the same user in a small amount of time - It becomes difficult here to track the exact notification user opened the app. Because user might have read all the news that received notifications in a single attempt.
The actual content displayed to the user in the app - User might have opened the app because of notifications. Some times he might have seen the notifications and then opened the app directly without interacting with the notifications.
So this is how the implementation can be.
Implement push notifications for the app
User receives the push notifications and the notification badge shows Number (1).
Now when the user views the same news story in any other medium (Your own Mac App or PC app). Server is notified of the users action and the news he/she/whoever just read.
Now the server knows it has sent a notification and it is not read. When you receive the read notification, you can send a remote notification that can be handled by the app in background and update the badge.
Check out this link for more details on how to handle notifications in various modes.
Apple documentation also can be referred here for background mode - remote-notification.
So you will be making your app run in background with certain settings to respond to silent notifications and update the badge just like WhatsApp. I hope this helps.
I've already implemented such thing in one of my app, and it's actually tricky.
You'll have a lot of use cases to handle.
First thing (but you seem to already know it): Apple does not provide
any callback to say : "this notification was sent"
Second thing : when your app is killed (not even in background), nothing at all can be done with your notification, meaning your app won't be able to wake up and read the notification, and therefor do something. The only thing you can do is changing the badge number, even if your app is killed.
Third thing : when your app is in background, you can wake up your app during 30sec. During that time you can send a request to the server, but if it takes too long, the process will be killed by the OS.
Saying that, here is a quick explanation of how you could implement the system:
You'll need on the server side to save in your data base any notifications that were sent. As soon as they are sent, save them as "pending"
On the app side: if your app is in background, as soon as the notification is received, you can wake up your app to send a request to the server. Then in your data base, your notification status will change to "receive" or "notified". If your app was killed, when the user launch your app, send a request to the server to ask for all notification in "pending" state, that way your app will be up to date, as well as your badge number.
If the user click on the notification, this will open your app directly on the article, that way you'll be able to send a request and say to your server that the article was received and read.
If the user read your article on the web side, send a notification. Set the notification badge number with the number of actual "pending" notification in your data base.
Hope this will help you in addition of the answer of #Prav :)
try this Notification Listner service https://github.com/kpbird/NotificationListenerService-Example.
Reply from Apple Developer Technical Support:
Hello Matteo,
Thank you for contacting Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS). Our engineers have reviewed your request and have concluded that there is no supported way to achieve the desired functionality given the currently shipping system configurations.
So at the end of the games IT'S NOT POSSIBLE
You want to sync your app with web app or website than once you send notification to application than set notification to particular ID.If user read that message from your web then send push notification again with different message and handle in service or broadcast receiver after that cancel notification if received message contains different message.you can also use Notification Listener.Refer thislink
Refer this link for ios.
Hi #Smile Applications after reading your question I would suggest you see OneSignal website. OneSignal will allow you to send notifications to your subscribed users. It will also show you how many users are using your app and how many of them have received your notifications. If you want to send notifications and track them from the app itself you can use their API. It is easy and I have implemented this in Android and soon will be implementing in IOS.
Now the second part of your question about knowing how to track how many users have read/opened your notification and on which activity they are on you can use Google Analytics. It will allow you to see from which part of the world your users are using your app and which activities of your app are being opened most. It is also easy and I have implemented this also in Android and soon will be implementing in IOS too.
I want to make an android app. in this app i want to control all the functionality from my website.t like if i click on a button from my website then it trigger my app and start a service from website.
last few days i spent lots of time to search the answer of my question if anyone can help me then please tell me the process how to do this...
You can do this with GCM
Steps:
Create admin panel with your requirements.
Register your app for GCM.
When certain action is performed then push the GCM.
Your app automatically received this GCM.
You can pass custom keyvalued json with GCM.
So according to this perform operation in your app.
Your app receive GCM even app has been killed so in background.
PS: you can also use FCM.
Link for GCM
Link for FCM
Tell me if you face any probelm in this.
maybe one way is when you click on button some dummy file with specific Extension (like .egn ) downloaded and try to opened. also register your Activity To Open that kind of files.
Register Activity To Open Any File With Certain Extension
I didn't test this solution but logically it is posible.
You will have to make a custom connection from your device to the website and when the button is clicked you have to store this on the server, let the code handling your device connection then check for this data and send it on to the device, which will have to actively process the data coming from the connection you established to the server and then have the App react appropriately.
It will take a lot of custom connection handling to make this possible.
i've been doing on my project which i should send a notification from my device to the other device.
lets say : i've got a edittext, when i insert a number greater than 140 and press the submit button, my device will send a notification to the another device, so a notif will appears on the other device. anyone know how to connected these devices?
well, i've been thinking using webservices/server/internet to connected it, does anyone know how to do it? it'll be more helpfull if u can show me the example code, thanks before :D
Just use pushbullet:
http://www.pushbullet.com/.
When you install pushbullet you can also install Push Tasker (so you can do Task when you receive certain notifications).