Customise push notification

[Maksym_Khobotin]

Also please note that you should return false in the onMessage method. Otherwise there will be shown two notifications: yours and from SDK.

[Maksym_Khobotin]

I can’t see anything there about passing paramaters to template via api?

You should take a look at Smart Text section:
https://backendless.com/docs/android/push_notification_content.html#smart-text

Also this topic may be helpful for you:

Another topic about icons

Yes, of course. You can use smart-text: https://backendless.com/docs/android/push_notification_content.html#smart-text and pass the values via Backendless.Messaging.pushWithTemplate( String templateName, Map<String, String> templateValues) call. For example: Specify the message in the push template: Here is my custom text: {custom_text} and pass the custom_text value into templateValues: templateValues.put("custom_text", "Some user-unique text"); Backendless.Messaging.pushWithTemplate("T…

and

Another topic about icons

Hi @Roberio_Lima About icon: I sent the notification from the Console and with API. For both cases I received the notification with the custom icon. Please check if you use the same template for both cases. It’s also can be the emulator problem. Please try to run your app on the real device and send the notification with command Backendless.Messaging.pushWithTemplate. About custom text: I checked the code sample you provided and it worked fine for me. Don’t you forget to add the custom text…

[mike-turner]

Thanks Maksym, going to try that this afternoon. let you know how I get on.

[mike-turner]

Ah, ok yes, of course, you could use the smart text as like a substitute for passing in a paramater. I think I get that now.

[mike-turner]

Perfect, that works how I was hoping it would. Many thanks for your code input.

[Maksym_Khobotin]

You are welcome, Mike!

[mike-turner]

Hi Maksym,

Just another quick question on this code you provided…

void showNotification() {
        final NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder;
        Context context = getApplicationContext();
        String channelName = "channelName";

For channelName, can I somehow get this from this in the msgIntent which is passed into the override onMessage. So if a channel is set in the message template I would like to pick it up here and I can’t find a way of doing that?

[Maksym_Khobotin]

Hi @mike-turner

The channel name is the same as template name.

To get the template name use the following code:

final String templateName = intent.getStringExtra( PublishOptions.TEMPLATE_NAME );

And to get the template object with all the information about push notification, use:

AndroidPushTemplate template = PushTemplateHelper.getPushNotificationTemplates().get( templateName );

Best Regards,
Maksym

[mike-turner]

Hi thanks for that, it makes sense.

Strange thing is template name is returning as ‘ImmediateMessage’

In the backendless console I have setup a template called ‘android_developer_phone_test’ , created and added a channel called testChannel to this template.

So you would expect it to return ‘android_developer_phone_test’ correct ? I don’t have any channels or templates called ‘ImmediatMessage’ so confused as where that is coming from.

Mike

[Maksym_Khobotin]

@mike-turner

ImmediateMessage

You receive the “ImmediateMessage” name if you send the notification from Console.
When you send the notification using API
Backendless.Messaging.sendWithTemplate() you will receive the real template name.

Best Regards

[mike-turner]

Ah ok, no probs, I can just send it through the header in the console as a work around.