Firebase onMessageReceived not called when app in background

Question

I\'m working with Firebase and testing sending notifications to my app from my server while the app is in the background. The notification is sent successfully, it even appe

Answer 1

according to the solution from t3h Exi i would like to post the clean code here. Just put it into MyFirebaseMessagingService and everything works fine if the app is in background mode. You need at least to compile com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:10.2.1

 @Override
public void handleIntent(Intent intent)
{
    try
    {
        if (intent.getExtras() != null)
        {
            RemoteMessage.Builder builder = new RemoteMessage.Builder("MyFirebaseMessagingService");

            for (String key : intent.getExtras().keySet())
            {
                builder.addData(key, intent.getExtras().get(key).toString());
            }



           onMessageReceived(builder.build());
        }
        else
        {
            super.handleIntent(intent);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        super.handleIntent(intent);
    }
}

Answer 2

When message is received and your app is in background the notification is sent to the extras intent of the main activity.

You can check the extra value in the oncreate() or onresume() function of the main activity.

You can check for the fields like data, table etc ( the one specified in the notification)

for example I sent using data as the key

public void onResume(){
    super.onResume();
    if (getIntent().getStringExtra("data")!=null){
            fromnotification=true;
            Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Activity2.class);
            i.putExtra("notification","notification");
            startActivity(i);
        }

}

Answer 3

If your problem is related to showing Big Image i.e. if you are sending push notification with an image from firebase console and it displays the image only if the app in the foreground. The solution for this problem is to send a push message with only data field. Something like this:

{ "data": { "image": "https://static.pexels.com/photos/4825/red-love-romantic-flowers.jpg", "message": "Firebase Push Message Using API" "AnotherActivity": "True" }, "to" : "device id Or Device token" }

Answer 4

Check the answer of @Mahesh Kavathiya. For my case, in server code has only like this:

{
"notification": {
  "body": "here is body",
  "title": "Title",
 },
 "to": "sdfjsdfonsdofoiewj9230idsjkfmnkdsfm"
}

You need to change to:

{
 "data": {
  "body": "here is body",
  "title": "Title",
  "click_action": "YOUR_ACTION"
 },
"notification": {
  "body": "here is body",
  "title": "Title"
 },
 "to": "sdfjsdfonsdofoiewj9230idsjkfmnkdsfm"
}

Then, in case app in Background, the default activity intent extra will get "data"

Good luck!

Answer 5

Remove notification field completely from your server request. Send only data and handle it in onMessageReceived() otherwise your onMessageReceived() will not be triggered when app is in background or killed.

Don't forget to include "priority": "high" field in your notification request. According to the documentation: data messages are sent with a normal priority, thus they will not arrive instantly; it could also be the problem.

Here is what I am sending from server

{
  "data":{
    "id": 1,
    "missedRequests": 5
    "addAnyDataHere": 123
  },
  "to": "fhiT7evmZk8:APA91bFJq7Tkly4BtLRXdYvqHno2vHCRkzpJT8QZy0TlIGs......",
  "priority": "high"
}

So you can receive your data in onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage message) like this....let say I have to get id

Object obj = message.getData().get("id");
        if (obj != null) {
            int id = Integer.valueOf(obj.toString());
        }

Answer 6

you can try this in your main Activity , when in the background

   if (getIntent().getExtras() != null) {
            for (String key : getIntent().getExtras().keySet()) {
                Object value = getIntent().getExtras().get(key);
                Log.d(TAG, "Key: " + key + " Value: " + value);
            }
        }

Check the following project as reference