Send Notifications to Your Android Application

Open SAP Cloud Platform Trial and log in to Neo Trial.

Select Services, then choose Mobile from the dropdown. Then click on Mobile Services, std.

Click on the Configure Mobile Services link.

On the Roles tab, select the Notification User role and click the Assign button, assigning your User ID.

Return to the Mobile Services screen.

Click the Go to Service link.

In SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services, select the application com.sap.wizapp and click on Push Notification.

This screen requires information from Firebase.

In the Firebase console, go to the Project settings.

Select the Cloud Messaging tab and copy the Server Key and Sender ID values from Firebase to the SAP Mobile Services Android Push Notification settings screen.

Under Mobile Applications, select the application.

Select the User Registrations tab to send the notification to your app.

It may be difficult to tell which registration to choose. The Last Connection field shows the last time a given registration made a request. If you are unsure which registration to choose, navigate through a few screens in the application and then press the GO button to refresh the display or select all of them and send a greeting to all the registrations.

If the Send Notifications button does is not showing, try logging out and back in to the management cockpit.

Specify the notification text to send to the app.

Notice that the app shows the notification.

On the emulator or mobile device, open another app, such as Chrome, which will cause the Wiz App to no longer be the foreground app.

If you now send another notification you notice that since the app is in the background, or not running, a notification is placed in the notification drawer.

Tapping on the notification will bring the app to the foreground or open the app.

If the app was not running when the notification was tapped on, due to a change made in the previous tutorial, it can be viewed by pressing the back button and navigating from the categories screen to the entity list screen.

Currently, the message is displayed in an AlertDialog.

Custom logic could be added to the app to decide on the action to take, such as displaying the new Office Furniture category.

Further information on push can be found at Push Notifications, Push API Notification Scenarios, and About FCM Messages.

Congratulations! You have seen how an app can make use of foreground and background notifications.