onNotification is not called when remote notification arrives and app is in background/foreground

I’m to update the UI when onNotification arrives. In general onNotification works as expected when app is killed. It wakes up -> onNotification gets called.

BUT onNotification doesn’t seem to be getting called when the app is NOT killed, i.e. in foreground or background.

I saw people reporting similar issues for local notifs, but I assume for remote notifications it’s different?

Can someone suggest what could be wrong?

import React from 'react'
import { Platform } from 'react-native'
import PushNotification from 'react-native-push-notification'
import PushNotificationIOS from '@react-native-community/push-notification-ios'

const Root = () => {
  PushNotification.configure({
    onRegister: pushToken => {
      console.log(pushToken.token)
    },

    onNotification: notification => {
      console.log('Notification received', notification)
      notification.finish(PushNotificationIOS.FetchResult.NoData)
    },
    onError: err => {
      console.log('Error configuring notifications', err)
    },

    senderID: SENDER_ID,

    permissions: {
      alert: true,
      badge: true,
      sound: true,
    },

    popInitialNotification: true,
    requestPermissions: Platform.OS === 'android',
  })

  return <Router />
}

The library version:

    "react-native-push-notification": "^3.5.0",

[Pra3t0r5]

@alex-mironov @snamstorm I am now facing the opposite problem. onNotification is called correctly when coming from foreground or background but it is not called when the app was killed. The app just launches normally. Could you maybe let me know how you did the configuration? I am calling PushNotification.configure from index.js so timing should not be the issue I guess. For Android it works correctly this way. I will also create a new issue for it since this is not really related. Just wanted your feedback since it seems to be working for you 😉

How did you solve this?

Haven’t solved it yet

This solved it for me:

• SplashActivity

package com.trique.app; // Change this to your package name.

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class SplashActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        intent.putExtras(getIntent().getExtras());  // <--- ADD THIS
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
    }
}

• MainActivity

package com.trique.app;

import com.facebook.react.ReactActivity;
import org.devio.rn.splashscreen.SplashScreen;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.content.Intent;

public class MainActivity extends ReactActivity {

  /**
   * Returns the name of the main component registered from JavaScript. This is used to schedule
   * rendering of the component.
   */
  @Override
  protected String getMainComponentName() {
    return "com.trique.app";
  }

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      SplashScreen.show(this);
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  }
}

• AndroidManifest

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.trique.app"
  xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
  <application android:name=".MainApplication" android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round" android:allowBackup="false" android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
    <meta-data android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_foreground" android:value="false"/>
    <meta-data android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_color" android:resource="@color/white"/>
    <receiver android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotificationActions"/>
    <receiver android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotificationPublisher"/>

    <receiver android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotificationBootEventReceiver">
      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON"/>
        <action android:name="com.htc.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON"/>
      </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

    <service android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotificationListenerService" android:exported="false">
      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.google.firebase.MESSAGING_EVENT"/>
      </intent-filter>
    </service>

    <activity android:name=".SplashActivity" android:theme="@style/SplashTheme" android:launchMode="singleTask" android:label="@string/app_name">

      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
      </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize|uiMode" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" android:launchMode="singleTask" android:exported="true">
      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
        <data android:host="share.triqueapp.com" android:scheme="https"/>
      </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <activity android:name="com.facebook.react.devsupport.DevSettingsActivity"/>

  </application>
</manifest>

[jSkrills]

@Dallas62 you were right. On the push-notification-ios#107 issue you eluded to the fix pointed out here enabled me to begin receiving onNotification events while the app was in the background or foreground. Thanks for your pointers!