onNotification not called when the app is first opened from notification tap

Bug

Environment info

react-native info output:

ystem:
    OS: macOS 10.15.7
    CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6267U CPU @ 2.90GHz
    Memory: 35.33 MB / 8.00 GB
    Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.20.1 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.5 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.10 - /usr/local/bin/npm
    Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.10.1 - /usr/local/bin/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: iOS 14.4, DriverKit 20.2, macOS 11.1, tvOS 14.3, watchOS 7.2
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 29, 30
      Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3
      Android NDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 4.1 AI-201.8743.12.41.7199119
    Xcode: 12.4/12D4e - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 1.8.0_121 - /usr/bin/javac
    Python: 2.7.15 - /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-native: 0.62.2 => 0.62.2 
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Library version: 7.2.3

Steps To Reproduce

onNotification: function (notification) {
    // do something
}

The above code only runs when the notification is tapped and if the app was previously opened. However, if the app was not opened, it never runs.

I’m trying to handle the case when the user taps on the notification and the app wasn’t opened / was killed, in order to react to it accordingly.

I see from RN logs that an initialProps object is added when the app opens from the notification on iOS, could this be used to add extra info?

Thanks!

[suryateja77]

Landed on the same issue, for remote notifications, the onNotification is not called on tapping the notification. However, it gets called when the notification arrives. Is there any other method that is triggered on clicking the notification from the tray?

OS: Android

The implementation is pretty much the same as mentioned above. I went through many other issues that were reported but could not find a solution for this. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[miallo]

We were using react-native-bootsplash and it was working just fine. Then we removed it and onNotification was no longer called. We tried a few things and eventually we realized (with a little bit of help from this SO answer) that were missing the following in the .MainActivity:

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

so in total that now looks like this:

<activity
  android:name=".MainActivity"
  android:label="@string/app_name"
  android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize|uiMode"
  android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
  android:exported="true"
  android:launchMode="singleTask">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.INFO" />
  </intent-filter>
  <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:scheme="nora"/>
  </intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
  android:name=".SplashScreenActivity"
  android:theme="@style/BootTheme"
  android:launchMode="singleTask">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
  </intent-filter>
</activity>