We are currently evaluating Firebase as a future push notification service. Is there a way to send actionable notifications to iOS devices? At the moment we use parse to send pushes, we set the "category" parameter in the payload and the additional actions on the notifications are working. We tried to set this parameter in the firebase console or via the firebase rest api, but the notification actions are not working, it seems the payload is somehow different then iOS expects.
Go to Settings and tap Notifications. Select an app under Notification Style. Under Alerts, choose the alert style that you want. If you turn on Allow Notifications, choose when you want the notifications delivered — immediately or in the scheduled notification summary.
For Apple client apps, you can receive notification and data payloads up to 4000 bytes over the Firebase Cloud Messaging APNs interface.
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) provides a reliable and battery-efficient connection between your server and devices that allows you to deliver and receive messages and notifications on iOS, Android, and the web at no cost.
Configure push notification Go to Firebase Console -> Settings -> Project Settings -> Cloud Messaging -> iOS app configuration If you use certificate, use just 1 Apple Push Notification service SSL for both fields If you use Authenticate Key, fill in APNS auth key
Concisely put, Firebase Cloud Messaging—or FCM for short—is a cross-platform cloud messaging and notification solution from Google, enabling developers to send push notifications to their app's end users through the Firebase Notification Composer, or a Firebase-exposed set of APIs.
Enter the following to build the pods: Open up the workspace Firebase-FCM.xcworkspace, and in a browser, go to the Firebase panel and create a new project: Next, click on Add Firebase to your iOS app, which walks you step by step through the process of registering your app on Firebase.
The “iOS App ID Settings” page will show up. Scroll all the way down until you see “Push Notifications.” It is time for us to create a “Client SSL Certificate.” This will allow our notification server (Firebase) to connect to the Apple Push Notification Service.
Thanks Malik for the answer. FCM seems to translate the android specific "click_action" property to the iOS specific "category" property.
We send firebase push notifications via their REST API, which can be easily used for testing with postman.
Here is the REST version:
POST https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send
Headers:
Body:
{ "notification": {
"text": "YOUR_PUSH_TEXT",
"click_action":"YOUR_IOS_ACTIONABLE_NOTIFICATION_CATEGORY"
},
"to" : "YOUR_PUSH_TOKEN",
"data": {
"YOUR_CUSTOM_DATA": "DATA"
}
}
Currently categories not supported in FCM console but still if you want to test you can use curl post call and test. You can add category to your payload from your server and use FCM api to push notification to iOS.
curl --header "Authorization: key=<YOUR_SERVER_KEY>" --header Content- Type:"application/json" https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send -d "{\"to\":\"Device Token\",\"priority\":\"high\",\"notification\": {\"title\": \"Shift Alert\",\"text\": \"Would you like to accept shift today 11:30 to 13:30 \",\"click_action\":\"INVITE_CATEGORY\"}}"
Authorization: key=YOUR_SERVER_KEY Make sure this is the server key, whose value is available in your Firebase project console under Project Settings > Cloud Messaging. Android, iOS, and browser keys are rejected by FCM.
INVITE_CATEGORY = Your category you using in your code
below is response dictionary you will get on action tap:
{
aps = {
alert = {
body = "Would you like to accept shift today 11:30 to 13:30 ";
title = "Shift Alert";
};
category = "INVITE_CATEGORY";
};
"gcm.message_id" = "0:12233487r927r923r7329";
}
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