Parse push notifications don't appear on notification tray on Android

Question

Parse push notifications don't appear on notification tray on Android

I have an Android app developed with Ionic Framework. I'm using the ngCordova plugin for push notifications and sending them using parse.com

The notifications are received when the app is running, but the notifications are not shown on the notification tray when the app is on background. I receive something like this:

notification = {
  payload: {
    data: {
      alert: "message",
    }
  }
}

But, when I send them directly through CGM, the notification do appear on the notification tray. And the object I receive is like:

notification = {
  message: "this appear on notification tray",
  payload: {
     message: "this appear on notification tray"
  }
}

Is there something wrong with Parse? Or is something I'm missing about Parse?

android
parse.com
push-notification
ionic-framework

Answer 1

This is kind of an old post, but I ran across this issue using Xamarin and Parse Push notifications, but my work around may work for you (and others that may see this in the future).

I wound up broadcasting a local Push Notification after the Parse notification is received.

First assign a receiver to the Parse notification event:

ParsePush.ParsePushNotificationReceived += PushNotificationReceived;

Then in the method:

void PushNotificationReceived (object sender, ParsePushNotificationEventArgs e)
{
     var payload = JObject.Parse (e.StringPayload); // Parse the JSON payload

     Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder (this);
     builder.SetContentTitle (payload ["alert"].ToString ());
     builder.SetContentText (payload ["androidDetail"].ToString ()); // Note: this is another field I added to the Parse Notification
     builder.SetDefaults (NotificationDefaults.Sound | NotificationDefaults.Vibrate);
     builder.SetSound (RingtoneManager.GetDefaultUri (RingtoneType.Notification));
     builder.SetSmallIcon (Resource.Drawable.small_notification_icon);

     var largeIcon = BitmapFactory.DecodeResource (Resources, Resource.Drawable.large_notification_icon);
     builder.SetLargeIcon (largeIcon);

     var notification = builder.Build ();
     notification.Defaults |= NotificationDefaults.Vibrate;

     NotificationManager notManager = (NotificationManager)GetSystemService (Context.NotificationService);

     notManager.Notify (0, notification);
}

Hope this helps you and anyone else who comes across this!