AppState changes to active when app receives notification in killed state

I am able to receive notification in all 3 states (killed/foreground/background).

The data gets printed in console when the notification arrives, however I was not receiving any data from the notification when clicked on it from the notification tray.

1. When I just send data, I can see the data getting printed in console the moment I send the notification but no icon in the notification array,

const payload = {
  data: {
    title: 'Hi',
    body: 'body',
    message: 'Message',
  }
}

1. When I just send data with notification, I can see icon in the notification array, but when I click on it, there is no data passed to the application in background and killed state

const payload = {
  data: {
    title: 'Hi',
    body: 'body',
    message: 'Message',
  },
  notification: {
    title: 'Hi',
    body: 'body',
    message: 'Message',
  }
}

1. Updated: When I just send data with custom_notification, I can see icon in the notification array with data getting printed in the console as soon as the notification arrives in the notification tray, but when I click on it, there is no data passed to the application in background and killed state.

const payload = {
  data: {
    custom_notification: {
      title: 'Hi',
      body: 'body',
      message: 'Message',
    }
  },
}

So, finally I decided to save data in asyncStorage whenever I receive the notification and if the user clicks on it I retrieve the notification data from storage. For this I heavily rely on appState.

The main problem here is that, when app is in killed state, I manage to store the data, but my function is unable to run as the AppState gets set as active when the notification arrives in killed state. Now when I click on the notification the AppState still remains active and my handler does not run at all.

RN: 0.45.1, FCM: 13.3.1

[sahil290791]

@balapkm you need to store the notification payload when it arrives in sleep/killed state using AsyncStorage and then when the user actually clicks on it, read it from AsyncStorage.

If you add a listener for killed state you will notice that the app receives the payload in killed state but when the user clicks on the notification the payload gets lost.

[evollu]

@sahil290791 perhaps I should merge sdk-26 into main as it is getting stable