GCM iOS topic: on('notification') not triggered when app in background

[ghost]

Expected Behaviour

Alert shown on iPhone when receiving push notification with sound and vibration when app is in background.
Note: this works on my Android Samsung S6 Edge

Actual Behaviour

The device seem to receive the push notification (see logs at the bottom) but on('notification') is not triggered.

Reproduce Scenario (including but not limited to)

see payload and sample code below

Steps to Reproduce

see payload and sample code below

Platform and Version iOS 9.2.1, 9.3.1

(Android) What device vendor (e.g. Samsung, HTC, Sony...)

Cordova CLI version and cordova platform version

cordova --version                                     6.1.1
cordova platform version iOS                  4.1.0

Plugin version

cordova plugin version | grep phonegap-plugin-push    1.6.2

Sample Push Data Payload

var message = new gcm.Message({
                                priority: 'high',
                                delayWhileIdle: true,
                                timeToLive: 3,
                                data: {
                                    url: 'infos',
                                    title: 'Whitehorse Now',
                                    body: data.new_val.title,
                                    sound: 'default',
                                    msgcnt: 1,
                                    contentAvailable: '1'
                                }
                            }),
                sender  = new gcm.Sender(config.gcm.api_key);

                sender.send(message, {topic: '/topics/' + topic.topic}, function(err, response) {
                    if (err) {
                        console.error(err);
                    }
                    else {
                        console.log('Push success: ' + JSON.stringify(response));
                    }
                });

Sample Code that illustrates the problem

function _initPush(topics) {
    app.push = PushNotification.init({
        android: {
            senderID: app.config.gcm.senderID,
            sound: "true",
            vibration: "true",
            topics: topics
        },
        ios: {
            senderID: app.config.gcm.senderID,
            gcmSandbox: "true",
            alert: "true",
            badge: "true",
            sound: "true",
            vibration: "true",
            clearBadge: "true",
            topics: topics
        }
    });

    app.push.on('registration', function(data) {
        console.log('Registration ID: ' + data.registrationId);

    });

    app.push.on('notification', function(data) {
        alert('got notification')

        app.push.finish(function() {
            console.log('Processing of push data is finished');
        });
    });

    app.push.on('error', function(e) {
        console.log('PushNotification error: ' + e.message);
    });
}

Logs taken while reproducing problem

2016-04-13 12:08:40.811 YukonNow[369:96113] didReceiveNotification with fetchCompletionHandler
2016-04-13 12:08:40.812 YukonNow[369:96113] app in-active
2016-04-13 12:08:40.812 YukonNow[369:96113] this should be a silent push
2016-04-13 12:08:40.812 YukonNow[369:96113] Push Plugin notId handler
2016-04-13 12:08:40.813 YukonNow[369:96113] Notification received
2016-04-13 12:08:40.814 YukonNow[369:96113] Push Plugin key: content-available

[macdonst]

@bardu this is the payload you would use on Android:

{
                                priority: 'high',
                                delayWhileIdle: true,
                                timeToLive: 3,
                                data: {
                                    url: 'infos',
                                    title: 'Whitehorse Now',
                                    body: data.new_val.title,
                                    sound: 'default',
                                    msgcnt: 1,
                                    contentAvailable: '1'
                                }
                            }

This is the payload you would use on iOS when using GCM:

{
                                priority: 'high',
                                delayWhileIdle: true,
                                timeToLive: 3,
                                content_available: true,
                                notification: {
                                    url: 'infos',
                                    title: 'Whitehorse Now',
                                    body: data.new_val.title,
                                    sound: 'default',
                                    badge: 1
                                }
                            }

It's a pain to send two different notifications for Android and iOS but that's the best I can do at the moment.

[ghost]

Leveraging GCM topics the my server doesn't know whether the recipient is Android or iOS, or do I miss something?

[macdonst]

@bardu you are not missing anything other than to get push to work properly for Android I've had to force everyone to use the data part of the push payload. If you use the notification part the OS takes over and we don't get to have nice things like background notification, action buttons, etc.

You should probably set it up so that your devices subscribe to different topics, say "foo-ios" and "foo-android" then have your server send the data in the right framework to the two different topics.

[DamodarSojka]

@macdonst I like the idea of using topics to separate iOS and Android users. Is it possible to send notification only to subset of users subscribed to a topic?

[hung-doan]

@macdonst So there is noway to send hybrid msg to GCM ?
I see this guide about Hybrid messages with both notification and data payload
https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/concept-options#notifications_and_data_messages

My msg payload:

{
    "to" : "APA91bHun4MxP5egoKMwt2KZFBaFUH-1RYqx...",
    "notification" : {
      "body" : "great match!",
      "title" : "Portugal vs. Denmark",
      "icon" : "myicon"
    },
    "data" : {
      "Nick" : "Mario",
      "Room" : "PortugalVSDenmark"
    }
  }

But on Android, on('notification') not triggered when app is running in background.

If there is no solution at the moment, Is there road-map to support this feature in next releases?!

[macdonst]

@hungdoan2 currently if you add the notification part to the payload then the Android OS does not pass on the info to the push plugin. I'm looking into a way to fix it.

[DamodarSojka]

@macdonst So currently there is no way to get both Android and iOS to work EXCEPT sending different data for iOS and different for Android right?

I am glad to hear that you are working on that, do you have some estimate when this feature will be working? Any estimate will help.

[macdonst]

@DamodarSojka Correct and no, I can't provide an estimate as it would only be a wild guess at this point.

[badpenguin]

@macdonst i was having problem receiving push notification while in background, just used your example and it started to work again!

[ghost]

@DamodarSojka Correct and no, I can't provide an estimate as it would only be a wild guess at this point.

@macdonst Any updates or new thoughts on this?

[ghost]

You should probably set it up so that your devices subscribe to different topics, say "foo-ios" and "foo-android" then have your server send the data in the right framework to the two different topics.

Since this is a good workaround for the issue I'm closing it.

[PDivya]

Hi Guys, Is anybody else facing issue with IOS 10.0.2 with push plugin 1.8.3 ? It's not working for me. I am not able to get notification on IOS. Any insight will be helpful. I got stuck with this problem from last 2 days.

Regards,
Divya

[hung-doan]

@PDivya
Is it working with your Android devices?.
Is it working with IOS 9.x ?
Have you tried to use older version of the plugin?

[PDivya]

@hung-doan : Yes, it is working with my android device as well as with IOS 9.x. I tired downgrading to 1.8.2 but it didn't help.

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