To make firebase library to call your onMessageReceived() in the following cases
you must not put JSON key 'notification' in your request to firebase API but instead use 'data', see below.
The following message will not call your onMessageReceived() when your app is in the background or killed, and you can't customize your notification.
{
"to": "/topics/journal",
"notification": {
"title" : "title",
"text": "data!",
"icon": "ic_notification"
}
}
but instead using this will work
{
"to": "/topics/dev_journal",
"data": {
"text":"text",
"title":"",
"line1":"Journal",
"line2":"??"
}
}
Basically, the message is sent in the argument RemoteMessage along with your data object as Map<String, String>, then you can manage the notification in onMessageReceived as in the snippet here
@Override
public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
Map<String, String> data = remoteMessage.getData();
//you can get your text message here.
String text= data.get("text");
NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
// optional, this is to make beautiful icon
.setLargeIcon(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(
getResources(), R.mipmap.ic_launcher))
.setSmallIcon(smallIcon) //mandatory
.......
/*You can read more on notification here:
https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/build-notification.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iog_fmm6mE
*/
}