How to launch my ionic app when a received push notification is clicked?

[bmwertman]

I'm using node-gcm to send scheduled push notification to my ionic/cordova application from my app's server. I've been able to launch the application from a url using Eddy Verbruggen's Custom-URL-scheme PhoneGap plugin.

I tried to set the URL generated by this plugin to the click_action in order to launch the app without success. Is this feasible? I can't write an intent-filter directly in my AndroidManifest.xml without it being overwritten when Cordova builds my app.

[hypesystem]

What is "the URL generated by this plugin" that you mention? I am not sure I understand what you have tried to make this work :-) Could you elaborate?

[bmwertman]

I was probably incorrect to say that the plugin generates the URL. It sets a 'URL_SCHEME' in an intent-filter as shown here. When I try to call the intent-filter created by the plugin by name I get this;

This is the intent-filter generated by the plugin; <intent-filter> <data android:scheme="MY_URL_SCHEME_NAME" /> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /> </intent-filter>

This is the click action referencing the intent-filter by name; notification: { title: "You have a new task", icon: "ic_stat_wrench_head", color: "#387ef5", sound: 'beep.wav', body: task.description, click_action: "android.intent.action.VIEW" }

The notification is received on my device but when I click it I get this;

[chrisgriffith]

See if anything in this recent workshop might solve your issue. It was the recent PhoneGap Day conference. I did not attend this workshop, but thought it might help.

http://macdonst.github.io/push-workshop/

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Brad Wertman notifications@github.com wrote:

I was probably incorrect to say that the plugin generates the URL. It sets a 'URL_SCHEME' in an intent-filter as shown here https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/Custom-URL-scheme#android. When I try to call the intent-filter created by the plugin by name I get this;

This is the intent-filter generated by the plugin;

This is the click action referencing the intent-filter by name; notification: { title: "You have a new task", icon: "ic_stat_wrench_head", color: "#387ef5", sound: 'beep.wav', body: task.description, click_action: "android.intent.action.VIEW" }

The notification is received on my device but when I click it I get this;

[image: browser_screenshot] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2573903/12849504/ee9980ec-cbed-11e5-9b00-2c960e2f3a3b.png

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm/issues/210#issuecomment-180387556 .

[bmwertman]

@chrisgriffith thanks. That helped. I'm able to get my app to display the action buttons following module 6 of that tutorial. But they only display if the app is open or in the background. If the app is closed they don't get appended and selecting the notification does nothing.

[eladnava]

@bmwertman Welcome to node-gcm! I think this question is outside the scope of the project, though, since it's a matter of interfacing with Ionic to handle the notification intent correctly, and the push does make it to the device successfully.

Also, since it's not really an issue, but a question, I'd suggest asking on StackOverflow instead.

[ronycohen]

Hello @bmwertman do you know how to open a specific state from a node-gcm notification. I installed phonegap-plugin-push on my ionic app.

[bmwertman]

@ronyrun I'm still working on that. I went through the setup instructions for IonicPush to get my client side setup and used node-gcm on the server side.

[ronycohen]

@bmwertman I didn't the IonicPush plugin, I use the phonegap-plugin-push instead

[ronycohen]

var push = PushNotification.init({ "android": {"senderID": "721393051486"},
         "ios": {"alert": "true", "badge": "true", "sound": "true"}, "windows": {} } );

    push.on('registration', function(data) {
        // data.registrationId
    });

    push.on('notification', function(data) {
        // data.message,
        // data.title,
        // data.count,
        // data.sound,
        // data.image,
        // data.additionalData
    });

    push.on('error', function(e) {
        // e.message
    });