Make notification system

[tanmaydixit]

The notif system will involve a image, message and title(parameters will be added in firebase) and a picture notif will come on every users phone.

[aayushsingla]

shall i do this now?

[aayushsingla]

For this we will be having two activities: Notification sender and the notification receiver: Notification receiver will be in the main app itself where as Notification sender can either be in the admin app(if we make that) or with some users whom we want. The whole system will be based on Firebase Cloud Messaging. Is this fine to go with?

[Rushi98]

Is it possible to send notifs from web and/or on some data change in firebase db such as time change for a program?

[aayushsingla]

From Firebase it wont be possible to send notifications with images or large texts. small notification can be send though.It might be possible to send notifications from a web Interface(will have to look into this).

If you want to post a notification for a time change you can post it by calling the function when someone changes the time by app or web interface. However, it can't be done in a systematic way by data change in Firebase. I really feel having notification for every time change will be just too much.Given we are making this app for bits.

[Rushi98]

We are not making this app specifically for BITS.

Also, check out google cloud functions (https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/) and data messages (https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options)

[aayushsingla]

data messages cannot be sent directly by firebase console.You will need someone to send a request to firebase noti server which in turn will send notification to all ur apps . if you wanna use firebase functions for sending notifications on any database change then it is possible. but we will need to discuss on what data changes do we need a notification.That i think can be thought only after the app and database is complete.