capacitor-fullscreen-notification

This plugin can automatically launch your app, triggered by a data push notification by the @capacitor/push-notifications plugin.

Use case example: Someone rings your doorbell -> your app opens and navigates to a specific route

Supported platforms

Platform	Supported
Android	✔
iOS	✖
Web	✖

Install

npm install capacitor-fullscreen-notification
npx cap sync android

Add this to the activity inside your AndroidManifest.xml:

android:showWhenLocked="true"
android:turnScreenOn="true"

Android behavior

The Android OS differs between an locked and unlocked device.

Locked

The app will only be launched instantly, when your device is in standby.

Unlocked

If your device is not in standby, you will get a default heads up notification with the defined title, text and actionButtons. When you click on it, the app will launch.

HINT
To identify if the app has been launched instantly or by clicking the heads up notification, you can check the property 'isNotificationActive' in the response data of your 'launch' listener. This is true on instant launch.

HINT: Android 14 and above
Starting with Android 14, the full screen intent permission must be granted manually by the user after each update, if the app does not provide calling and alarm functionalities.
More info: https://source.android.com/docs/core/permissions/fsi-limits

Workflow

This plugin will start a fullscreen intent by a local notification, when it receives a specific data push notification.

Firebase
1. Send a data push

Plugin
2. Receives the data push
3. Sends a local notification with full screen intent (opens app)
4. Emits a plugin event

App
5. Listen to event and redirect to any page

Usage

Trigger push

Send a data push notification (leave the field notification empty!) with the following key value pairs in the data option:

Option	Description
`fullScreenId`	(Required) Identifier of the fullscreen notification
`channelId`	Identifier of the notification channel
`channelName`	Name of the notification channel
`channelDescription`	Description of the notification channel
`title`	Title of the heads up notification
`text`	Text of the heads up notification
`timeout`	Timeout, for auto removing the notification
`vibrationPattern`	Stringified array of long values (docs)
`actionButtons`	Stringified array of ActionButton objects

ActionButton

Prop	Description
`id`	Identifier of the button
`text`	Button text

Example

{
  "fullScreenId": "my-fullscreen-identifier",
  "channelId": "fullscreen-channel",
  "channelName": "My Fullscreen Channel",
  "channelDescription": "Notifications in this channel will be displayed with a fullscreen intent",
  "title": "Test notification",
  "text": "Test description",
  "timeout": "10000",
  "vibrationPattern": "[500, 300, 500, 300, 500, 300, 500, 300]",
  "actionButtons": "[{ \"id\": \"reject\", \"text\": \"Reject\" }, { \"id\": \"accept\", \"text\": \"Accept\" }]"
}

App

In your app, you can listen to the launch of the application. This event is fired when the fullscreen notification opens or the heads up notification is clicked. You can also cancel the active notification, if it exists:

import { FullScreenNotification } from 'capacitor-fullscreen-notification';

FullScreenNotification.addListener('launch', (data) => {
    ...
});

...

await FullScreenNotification.cancelNotification();

Inside the data of the launch event, you can have the following data:

Prop	Type	Description
`fullScreenId`	string	Identifier of the triggering request
`isNotificationActive`	boolean	Is the notification still active
`timeout`	number	(Optionally) Timeout value of the triggering request
`actionId`	string	(Optionally) Idenfifier of the clicked action button

API

cancelNotification()

cancelNotification() => any

Cancel the current notification

Returns: any

canUseFullScreenIntent()

canUseFullScreenIntent() => any

Check if the user granted permission to show full screen intents

Returns: any

openFullScreenIntentSettings()

openFullScreenIntentSettings() => any

Open the settings page to grant the full screen permission

Returns: any

addListener('launch', ...)

addListener(eventName: 'launch', listenerFunc: MessageListener) => any

Add a listener when the fullscreen intent launches the app. You can navigate here to the destination page. The parameter gives you the information if an action button has been clicked.

Param	Type
`eventName`	`'launch'`
`listenerFunc`	`MessageListener`

Returns: any

removeAllListeners()

removeAllListeners() => any

Removes all listeners.

Returns: any

Interfaces

PluginListenerHandle

Prop	Type
`remove`	`() => any`

Type Aliases

MessageListener

(response: any): void