Supporting push notifications on Android

[gzzo]

Introduction

PushNotificationIOS works perfectly on iOS. React Native should support push notifications on Android as well.

The Core of It

It looks like the go-to library for Android support has been react-native-push-notification. However, it looks like that repository isn't maintained anymore and may have been abandoned.

I think it's reasonable to expect developers to want push notification support on both platforms mostly out-of-the-box without having to resort to third parties. There's several third parties with freemium react-native support (Firebase, OneSignal, Pusher).

Discussion points

Options:

1. Adopt react-native-push-notification into react-native-community
2. Create a PushNotificationAndroid API
3. Add Android support into PushNotificationIOS and rename the API to PushNotification

[cpojer]

We are currently extracting this functionality from React Native into https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-push-notification-ios

Would you be able to lead the effort to bring the Android version into the react-native-community and possibly building one library to handle push notifications for both platforms?

[sibelius]

you should check react-native-firebase for this

[gzzo]

@sibelius I mentioned that in the issue description. I don't think RN should rely on third parties with freemium models for Android push notifications.

@cpojer So is the preferred option from my description the third one, to have a unified API, PushNotification?

[sibelius]

firebase is de facto solution for android push

GCM is deprecated, everything now is FCM, you can use it for free forever

Google does not have any other option

[gzzo]

Thanks, I didn't know that. Looks like GCM will be deprecated 4/11/2019.

That means that the unified PushNotification API will only need to support FCM.

[rhdeck]

I contributed the FCM support PR for react-native-push-notification and I use it in production. Glad to belp a RNC initiative for that support.

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[rafaellincoln]

@gzzo Feel free to open a PR on push-notification-ios

[gourav3309]

Hey, I am working on a React Native mobile app, and I want to integrate Firebase into my code. I am able to get the FCM token on an Android device, but I am unable to get the FCM token on an iOS device. Can you please help me? Here are my Podfile, AppDelegate.mm file, and AppDelegate.h file. Please check and provide me with a better solution as soon as possible. :

AppDelegate.mm** ::
#import "AppDelegate.h"
#import <Firebase.h>
#import "RNFBMessagingModule.h"
#import <React/RCTBundleURLProvider.h>

@implementation AppDelegate

• (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
  {
  self.moduleName = @"crc_app";
  // You can add your custom initial props in the dictionary below.
  // They will be passed down to the ViewController used by React Native.
  self.initialProps = @{};

  return [super application:application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions];
  }

• (NSURL *)sourceURLForBridge:(RCTBridge *)bridge
  {
  return [self bundleURL];
  }

• (NSURL *)bundleURL
  {
  #if DEBUG
  return [[RCTBundleURLProvider sharedSettings] jsBundleURLForBundleRoot:@"index"];
  #else
  return [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"main" withExtension:@"jsbundle"];
  #endif
  }

@EnD

**************podfile : **************

Resolve react_native_pods.rb with node to allow for hoisting

require Pod::Executable.execute_command('node', ['-p',
'require.resolve(
"react-native/scripts/react_native_pods.rb",
{paths: [process.argv[1]]},
)', dir]).strip

platform :ios, min_ios_version_supported
prepare_react_native_project!

$RNFirebaseAsStaticFramework = true

pod 'Firebase', :modular_headers => true
pod 'FirebaseCoreInternal', :modular_headers => true
pod 'GoogleUtilities', :modular_headers => true
pod 'FirebaseCore', :modular_headers => true
linkage = ENV['USE_FRAMEWORKS']
if linkage != nil
Pod::UI.puts "Configuring Pod with #{linkage}ally linked Frameworks".green
use_frameworks! :linkage => linkage.to_sym
use_frameworks! :linkage => :static

end

target 'crc_app' do
config = use_native_modules!

use_react_native!(
:path => config[:reactNativePath],
# An absolute path to your application root.
:app_path => "#{Pod::Config.instance.installation_root}/.."
)

target 'crc_appTests' do
inherit! :complete
# Pods for testing
end

post_install do |installer|
# https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/main/packages/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods.rb#L197-L202
react_native_post_install(
installer,
config[:reactNativePath],
:mac_catalyst_enabled => false,
# :ccache_enabled => true
)
end
end
AppDelegate.h :**
#import <RCTAppDelegate.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface AppDelegate : RCTAppDelegate

@EnD