Handling Notifee without FCM

[jeremiebardon]

Hello there !

First of all thank you of your hard work on this plugin it's implemented on our Android and working fine 🙂

I have a question (maybe a little large but trying my luck).

We have an app who need to be upgraded especially the iOS part since Android is already here with Notifee + @react-native-firebase/messaging for receiving push notifications and use Notifee to trigger the notification.

This is the problem:

I'm struggling to find a good library to handle push notifications in foreground/background/close state.

Currently we use react-native-push-notification for handling push notifications reception and @react-native-community/push-notification-ios for local handling (we would like to use notifee instead).

We can't afford to use FCM on iOS because of use_framwork!, I've also thinking to keep react-native-push-notification for handling the reception but the package is too much out-of-date.

Did you have any solution/advice to receive push notification on iOS without react-native-push-notification in combination with Notifee ?

I've also tried wix push notifications without success and One signal seems not to be a better option when I read this:

In their react-native documentation they describe several things you must do, but users here have noticed incompatibilities and also here when following the documentation because the One Signal libraries appear to be a bit out of date..

React native version: 0.66.4

Thank you in advance and have a good day! :)

[mikehardy]

You can use react-native-firebase v14 until the use_frameworks situation is sorted out. It will be sorted out and already works for most modules with many others in progress. I think that's a solve-able problem and am actively pushing ahead with that.

I'm not aware of any other iOS packages that reliably handle notifications with maintenance you can count on for years and years, it's why I/we (Invertase) work on it and maintain it.

[mikehardy]

Here is rn0.70 + react-native-firebase working, as an example: https://github.com/mikehardy/rnfbdemo/blob/rn0.70/make-demo.sh

And there are PRs or discussions in progress in a lot of other places, logging an issue with the module that is having the build issue is the ticket to moving the ecosystem forward, while using react-native-firebase v14 in the interim

[jeremiebardon]

Hey Mike ! First thank you for your answer, i've not thinking about that !

Also I've figure it out how to use the latest version with modular header finally ! Are you recommend the usage without use_framworks! or that can bring more problem on the table ?