Apigee push notifications on Android not delivered when app in background (Phonegap)

Question

I am trying to use apigee push notifications with Android phonegap app build 3.3.0, PushPlugin. My push notifications sent when the app is in foreground are displayed correctly, but when the app is in background they are not shown.

It looks like the issue is that apigee sends a push with payload that contains "data" property (e.payload.data), instead of "message" property, and since there is no "message" property and that's why android does not display it.

Can you please advise if it is possible to change the payload format of apigee push messages or make the phonegap app to handle "data" in the payload correctly?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm not sure how flexible the phone gap plugin is regarding background processing, but yes, you may provide any payload you'd like when you create the message to push to your devices.

If you look Apigee's Creating and managing notifications document, you'll see in each example, there is a that can specified. If it is a JSON object (instead of a string), it will be delivered "as is" to the client. In other words, you could specify during notification creation that the for your notifier is something like:

{ "message" : "my message" }.

Hope that helps.