Push Notification

Overview

You can set up push notifications to notify your end users for incoming chat messages.

Setting up Push Notification

For managing push notifications, you must have a Firebase account.

  1. Once you have created a Firebase account, setup Firebase in your project.
  2. When you have setup Firebase in your project, you can setup Firebase Cloud Messaging client app on Android by following the official Firebase documentation.

Obtain server key from firebase

  1. From Firebase console, click Settings icon -> Project settings

  2. Once you click project settings select the Cloud Messaging tab under Settings.

  3. Click on vertical ellipsis menu "⋮" present at the right side of the Cloud Messaging API (Legacy) (Ignore this step if Cloud Messaging API is already enabled) then click on “Manage API in Google Cloud Console”. It’ll open a Cloud messaging page. Click on “Enable” on option present on that page.

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  1. Under Cloud Messaging API (Legacy), copy your Server Key

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Add your server key to Kommunicate

Go to Push notification section in Kommunicate dashboard and update the FCM server key under the 'GCM/FCM Key' section. You can find it in the Settings -> Cloud Messaging -> Server Key section of your Firebase console.

Send the device token to Kommunicate

If your Firebase Messaging setup is done, the next step would be to send the deviceToken to Kommunicate. This needs to be done in onNewToken method of your FirebaseMessagingService subclass. The onNewToken method is called whenever firebase updates the deviceToken on that device.

Note: onNewToken method provides token, this is the deviceToken.

Use the below code to send the token to Kommunicate.

@Override
public void onNewToken(String token) {
    super.onNewToken(registrationId);
    Log.d(TAG, "Refreshed token: " + token);
    Kommunicate.updateDeviceToken(context, token);
}

Receive push notifications

Using the device token, Kommunicate will send the message to the device. For Receiving FCM Notifications in your app, add the following code in your FirebaseMessagingService class.

@Override
    public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
        Log.i(TAG, "FCM notification processing...");

        if (Kommunicate.isKmNotification(this, remoteMessage.getData())) {
            return;
        }
        super.onMessageReceived(remoteMessage);
    }

Set notification small icon

To set the notification small icon, place the below metadata in your AndroidManifest.xml file under </application> tag :

 <meta-data 
    android:name="com.applozic.mobicomkit.notification.smallIcon"
    android:resource="<YOUR_LAUNCHER_SMALL_ICON>" /> <!-- Replace this with a valid resource name for Launcher white Icon -->

Note: Android version 6.0 onwards, android automatically converts the small icon color to monochrome. While some custom ROM devices do show colored icons, it is recommended that you use a shaped icon with some transparent background instead of round solid icons as a small icon.

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