React Native Push Notifications

React Native Local and Remote Notifications for iOS and Android

Supported React Native Versions

Component Version	RN Versions	README
1.0.7	<= 0.27	Open
1.0.8	0.28	Open
2.0.1	0.29	Open
2.0.2	0.30, 0.31, 0.32	Open
>= 2.1.0	>= 0.33	Open

Changelog

Changelog is available from version 3.1.3 here: Changelog

Installation

NPM

npm install --save react-native-push-notification

Yarn

yarn add react-native-push-notification

NOTE: For Android, you will still have to manually update the AndroidManifest.xml (as below) in order to use Scheduled Notifications.

Issues

Having a problem? Read the troubleshooting guide before raising an issue.

Pull Requests

Please read...

iOS manual Installation

The component uses PushNotificationIOS for the iOS part.

Please see: PushNotificationIOS

Android manual Installation

NOTE: firebase-messaging, prior to version 15 requires to have the same version number in order to work correctly at build time and at run time. To use a specific version:

In your android/build.gradle

ext {
    googlePlayServicesVersion = "<Your play services version>" // default: "+"
    firebaseMessagingVersion = "<Your Firebase version>" // default: "+"

    // Other settings
    compileSdkVersion = <Your compile SDK version> // default: 23
    buildToolsVersion = "<Your build tools version>" // default: "23.0.1"
    targetSdkVersion = <Your target SDK version> // default: 23
    supportLibVersion = "<Your support lib version>" // default: 23.1.1
}

NOTE: localNotification() works without changes in the application part, while localNotificationSchedule() only works with these changes:

In your android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

    .....
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>

    <application ....>
        <meta-data  android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_channel_name"
                android:value="YOUR NOTIFICATION CHANNEL NAME"/>
        <meta-data  android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_channel_description"
                    android:value="YOUR NOTIFICATION CHANNEL DESCRIPTION"/>

        <!-- Change the value to true to enable pop-up for in foreground (remote-only, for local use ignoreInForeground) -->
        <meta-data  android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_foreground"
                    android:value="false"/>
        <!-- Change the resource name to your App's accent color - or any other color you want -->
        <meta-data  android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_color"
                    android:resource="@color/white"/> <!-- or @android:color/{name} to use a standard color -->

        <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" />
            </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>
     .....

If not using a built in Android color (@android:color/{name}) for the notification_color meta-data item. In android/app/src/main/res/values/colors.xml (Create the file if it doesn't exist).

<resources>
    <color name="white">#FFF</color>
</resources>

If you use remote notifications

Make sure you have installed setup Firebase correctly.

In android/build.gradle

buildscript {
    ...
    dependencies {
        ...
        classpath('com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3')
        ...
    }
}

In android/app/build.gradle

dependencies {
  ...
  implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.3.0'
  ...
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Then put your google-services.json in android/app/.

Note: firebase/release-notes

The Firebase Android library firebase-core is no longer needed. This SDK included the Firebase SDK for Google Analytics.

Now, to use Analytics or any Firebase product that recommends the use of Analytics (see table below), you need to explicitly add the Analytics dependency: com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.3.0.

If you don't use autolink

In android/settings.gradle

...
include ':react-native-push-notification'
project(':react-native-push-notification').projectDir = file('../node_modules/react-native-push-notification/android')

In your android/app/build.gradle

 dependencies {
    ...
    implementation project(':react-native-push-notification')
    ...
 }

Manually register module in MainApplication.java (if you did not use react-native link):

import com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.ReactNativePushNotificationPackage;  // <--- Import Package

public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {

  private final ReactNativeHost mReactNativeHost = new ReactNativeHost(this) {
      @Override
      protected boolean getUseDeveloperSupport() {
        return BuildConfig.DEBUG;
      }

      @Override
      protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {

      return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
          new MainReactPackage(),
          new ReactNativePushNotificationPackage() // <---- Add the Package
      );
    }
  };

  ....
}

Usage

import PushNotificationIOS from "@react-native-community/push-notification-ios";
var PushNotification = require("react-native-push-notification");

PushNotification.configure({
  // (optional) Called when Token is generated (iOS and Android)
  onRegister: function (token) {
    console.log("TOKEN:", token);
  },

  // (required) Called when a remote is received or opened, or local notification is opened
  onNotification: function (notification) {
    console.log("NOTIFICATION:", notification);

    // process the notification

    // (required) Called when a remote is received or opened, or local notification is opened
    notification.finish(PushNotificationIOS.FetchResult.NoData);
  },

  // IOS ONLY (optional): default: all - Permissions to register.
  permissions: {
    alert: true,
    badge: true,
    sound: true,
  },

  // Should the initial notification be popped automatically
  // default: true
  popInitialNotification: true,

  /**
   * (optional) default: true
   * - Specified if permissions (ios) and token (android and ios) will requested or not,
   * - if not, you must call PushNotificationsHandler.requestPermissions() later
   * - if you are not using remote notification or do not have Firebase installed, use this:
   *     requestPermissions: Platform.OS === 'ios'
   */
  requestPermissions: true,
});

Example app

Example folder contains an example app to demonstrate how to use this package. The notification Handling is done in NotifService.js.

Please test your PRs with this example app before submitting them. It'll help maintaining this repo.

Handling Notifications

When any notification is opened or received the callback onNotification is called passing an object with the notification data.

Notification object example:

{
    foreground: false, // BOOLEAN: If the notification was received in foreground or not
    userInteraction: false, // BOOLEAN: If the notification was opened by the user from the notification area or not
    message: 'My Notification Message', // STRING: The notification message
    data: {}, // OBJECT: The push data
}

Local Notifications

PushNotification.localNotification(details: Object)

EXAMPLE:

PushNotification.localNotification({
  /* Android Only Properties */
  id: 0, // (optional) Valid unique 32 bit integer specified as string. default: Autogenerated Unique ID
  ticker: "My Notification Ticker", // (optional)
  autoCancel: true, // (optional) default: true
  largeIcon: "ic_launcher", // (optional) default: "ic_launcher"
  smallIcon: "ic_notification", // (optional) default: "ic_notification" with fallback for "ic_launcher"
  bigText: "My big text that will be shown when notification is expanded", // (optional) default: "message" prop
  subText: "This is a subText", // (optional) default: none
  color: "red", // (optional) default: system default
  vibrate: true, // (optional) default: true
  vibration: 300, // vibration length in milliseconds, ignored if vibrate=false, default: 1000
  tag: "some_tag", // (optional) add tag to message
  group: "group", // (optional) add group to message
  ongoing: false, // (optional) set whether this is an "ongoing" notification
  priority: "high", // (optional) set notification priority, default: high
  visibility: "private", // (optional) set notification visibility, default: private
  importance: "high", // (optional) set notification importance, default: high
  allowWhileIdle: false, // (optional) set notification to work while on doze, default: false
  ignoreInForeground: false, // (optional) if true, the notification will not be visible when the app is in the foreground (useful for parity with how iOS notifications appear)

  /* iOS only properties */
  alertAction: "view", // (optional) default: view
  category: "", // (optional) default: empty string
  userInfo: {}, // (optional) default: {} (using null throws a JSON value '<null>' error)

  /* iOS and Android properties */
  title: "My Notification Title", // (optional)
  message: "My Notification Message", // (required)
  playSound: false, // (optional) default: true
  soundName: "default", // (optional) Sound to play when the notification is shown. Value of 'default' plays the default sound. It can be set to a custom sound such as 'android.resource://com.xyz/raw/my_sound'. It will look for the 'my_sound' audio file in 'res/raw' directory and play it. default: 'default' (default sound is played)
  number: 10, // (optional) Valid 32 bit integer specified as string. default: none (Cannot be zero)
  repeatType: "day", // (optional) Repeating interval. Check 'Repeating Notifications' section for more info.
  actions: '["Yes", "No"]', // (Android only) See the doc for notification actions to know more
});

Scheduled Notifications

PushNotification.localNotificationSchedule(details: Object)

EXAMPLE:

PushNotification.localNotificationSchedule({
  //... You can use all the options from localNotifications
  message: "My Notification Message", // (required)
  date: new Date(Date.now() + 60 * 1000), // in 60 secs
});

Custom sounds

In android, add your custom sound file to [project_root]/android/app/src/main/res/raw

In iOS, add your custom sound file to the project Resources in xCode.

In the location notification json specify the full file name:

soundName: 'my_sound.mp3'

Cancelling notifications

1) cancelLocalNotifications

Android

The id parameter for PushNotification.localNotification is required for this operation. The id supplied will then be used for the cancel operation.

// Android
PushNotification.localNotification({
    ...
    id: '123'
    ...
});
PushNotification.cancelLocalNotifications({id: '123'});

IOS

The userInfo parameter for PushNotification.localNotification is required for this operation and must contain an id parameter. The id supplied will then be used for the cancel operation.

// IOS
PushNotification.localNotification({
    ...
    userInfo: { id: '123' }
    ...
});
PushNotification.cancelLocalNotifications({id: '123'});

2) cancelAllLocalNotifications

PushNotification.cancelAllLocalNotifications()

Cancels all scheduled notifications AND clears the notifications alerts that are in the notification centre.

NOTE: there is currently no api for removing specific notification alerts from the notification centre.

3) removeAllDeliveredNotifications

PushNotificationIOS.removeAllDeliveredNotifications();

Remove all delivered notifications from Notification Center

4) getDeliveredNotifications

PushNotificationIOS.getDeliveredNotifications(callback);

Provides you with a list of the app’s notifications that are still displayed in Notification Center

Parameters:

Name	Type	Required	Description
callback	function	Yes	Function which receive an array of delivered notifications.

A delivered notification is an object containing:

identifier : The identifier of this notification.
title : The title of this notification.
body : The body of this notification.
category : The category of this notification (optional).
userInfo : An object containing additional notification data (optional).
thread-id : The thread identifier of this notification, if has one.

5) removeDeliveredNotifications

PushNotificationIOS.removeDeliveredNotifications(identifiers);

Removes the specified notifications from Notification Center

Parameters:

Name	Type	Required	Description
identifiers	array	Yes	Array of notification identifiers.

Abandon Permissions

PushNotification.abandonPermissions() Revokes the current token and unregister for all remote notifications received via APNS or FCM.

Notification priority

(optional) Specify priority to set priority of notification. Default value: "high"

Available options:

"max" = NotficationCompat.PRIORITY_MAX "high" = NotficationCompat.PRIORITY_HIGH "low" = NotficationCompat.PRIORITY_LOW "min" = NotficationCompat.PRIORITY_MIN "default" = NotficationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT

More information: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#PRIORITY_DEFAULT

Notification visibility

(optional) Specify visibility to set visibility of notification. Default value: "private"

Available options:

"private" = NotficationCompat.VISIBILITY_PRIVATE "public" = NotficationCompat.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC "secret" = NotficationCompat.VISIBILITY_SECRET

More information: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#VISIBILITY_PRIVATE

Notification importance

(optional) Specify importance to set importance of notification. Default value: "high"

Available options:

"default" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT "max" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_MAX "high" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_HIGH "low" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW "min" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_MIN "none" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE "unspecified" = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_UNSPECIFIED

More information: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager#IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT

Notification while idle

(optional) Specify allowWhileIdle to set if the notification should be allowed to execute even when the system is on low-power idle modes.

On Android 6.0 (API level 23) and forward, the Doze was introduced to reduce battery consumption when the device is unused for long periods of time. But while on Doze the AlarmManager alarms (used to show scheduled notifications) are deferred to the next maintenance window. This may cause the notification to be delayed while on Doze.

This can significantly impact the power use of the device when idle. So it must only be used when the notification is required to go off on a exact time, for example on a calendar notification.

More information: https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby

Repeating Notifications

(optional) Specify repeatType and optionally repeatTime (Android-only) while scheduling the local notification. Check the local notification example above.

Property repeatType could be one of month, week, day, hour, minute, time. If specified as time, it should be accompanied by one more parameter repeatTime which should the number of milliseconds between each interval.

Notification Actions

(Android only) Refer to this issue to see an example of a notification action.

Two things are required to setup notification actions.

1) Specify notification actions for a notification

This is done by specifying an actions parameters while configuring the local notification. This is an array of strings where each string is a notification action that will be presented with the notification.

For e.g. actions: '["Accept", "Reject"]' // Must be in string format

The array itself is specified in string format to circumvent some problems because of the way JSON arrays are handled by react-native android bridge.

2) Specify handlers for the notification actions

For each action specified in the actions field, we need to add a handler that is called when the user clicks on the action. This can be done in the componentWillMount of your main app file or in a separate file which is imported in your main app file. Notification actions handlers can be configured as below:

import PushNotificationAndroid from 'react-native-push-notification'

(function() {
  // Register all the valid actions for notifications here and add the action handler for each action
  PushNotificationAndroid.registerNotificationActions(['Accept','Reject','Yes','No']);
  DeviceEventEmitter.addListener('notificationActionReceived', function(action){
    console.log ('Notification action received: ' + action);
    const info = JSON.parse(action.dataJSON);
    if (info.action == 'Accept') {
      // Do work pertaining to Accept action here
    } else if (info.action == 'Reject') {
      // Do work pertaining to Reject action here
    }
    // Add all the required actions handlers
  });
})();

For iOS, you can use this package to add notification actions.

Set application badge icon

PushNotification.setApplicationIconBadgeNumber(number: number)

Works natively in iOS.

Uses the ShortcutBadger on Android, and as such will not work on all Android devices.

Sending Notification Data From Server

Same parameters as PushNotification.localNotification()

Android Only Methods

PushNotification.subscribeToTopic(topic: string) Subscribe to a topic (works only with Firebase)

PushNotification.unsubscribeFromTopic(topic: string) Unsubscribe from a topic (works only with Firebase)

Checking Notification Permissions

PushNotification.checkPermissions(callback: Function) Check permissions

callback will be invoked with a permissions object:

alert: boolean
badge: boolean
sound: boolean

iOS Only Methods

PushNotification.getApplicationIconBadgeNumber(callback: Function) Get badge number

joegichuru/react-native-push-notification

React Native Push Notifications

Supported React Native Versions

Changelog

Installation

NPM

Yarn

Issues

Pull Requests

iOS manual Installation

Android manual Installation

If you use remote notifications

If you don't use autolink

Usage

Example app

Handling Notifications

Local Notifications

Scheduled Notifications

Custom sounds

Cancelling notifications

1) cancelLocalNotifications

Android

IOS

2) cancelAllLocalNotifications

3) removeAllDeliveredNotifications

4) getDeliveredNotifications

5) removeDeliveredNotifications

Abandon Permissions

Notification priority

Notification visibility

Notification importance

Notification while idle

Repeating Notifications

Notification Actions

1) Specify notification actions for a notification

2) Specify handlers for the notification actions

Set application badge icon

Sending Notification Data From Server

Android Only Methods

Checking Notification Permissions

iOS Only Methods