Firebase Push Notifications - Help with implementation / documentation

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Hi all,

We are having trouble implementing and looking for documentation and/or assistance. It seems that Firebase may have made some changes since the release.

There are now two options within the Firebase “Grow” section: Cloud Messaging (General OS Notification messages) and In-App Messaging . We’ve tried both without success.

  1. Which one of these is SAB designed to support - Cloud Messaging or In-App Messaging (or both)?

  2. Can you help with the implementation?

For Cloud Messaging we set up a campaign to send to all users of our demo app version (1 user). The user never received the message notification.

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There are some settings options, but we are sure where this data would/should go.

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We’ve also tried In-App Messaging with the following format sending to the same demo app version without success.

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Thanks!

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I looked at the code and it is Firebase Cloud Messaging.

I was able to successfully send a message.

  1. I created a project in Firebase
  2. I added an app to the project using the package name that is in the SAB Project.
  3. I downloaded the google-services.json file from Firebase (note that this includes all apps in a project–I made sure the json had only the app for the project).
  4. I added the google-service.json file to my SAB project
  5. I rebuilt the app, installed it on a test phone, and ran the app
  6. I went into Firebase and sent a message

The message was received by the test phone almost immediately.

Hope this helps,
Chris

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sorry Chris, tried that didnt work too, any suggestions?

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Chris and Francoz,

I’ve tried is with two separate apps and I think it only worked maybe once out of ten times I tried. I followed the steps and on Firebase tried both cloud based and in app messaging and nothing is coming over. This would be a VERY nice feature. I will keep digging.

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@francoz & @O_Dev - Do you have multiple apps inside one Firebase Project?

I also experienced same issue when I had multiple apps inside one Firebase project. At times the cloud notifications won’t deliver.

But, when I tried with the project which have only one app - the push notification went through every time.

I am not sure whether it will be applicable in your case too.

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Cloud messaging is the option. Start with a fresh download something the json file corrupt some easily.