How to make Bluemix push notifications play sound and vibrate on Android

Question

I am using the Bluemix Push Notification service and the ibm-mfp-push Cordova plugin to deal with Push notifications in my Ionic app.

I would like notifications to vibrate and play sound when they are received. I managed to do it on iOS. But I can't find a way to do it on Android.

Is there any way to configure the Bluemix push service and the Cordova plugin to achieve what I want to do?

I saw this post that pretends to give a solution. But unfortunately it seems to be applicable to the Android client sdk only, and not to the Cordova sdk.

Answer 1

In order to enable custom Android push notification sounds, simply include your custom sound file in your Android native resources directory.

When you go to send a message, either add the correct path to the custom sound file in the dashboard, or use the Push Swagger API to do the same.

Answer 2

Two things:

The Push team recently updated from ibm-mfp-push to bms-push , so it may be a good idea to upgrade. (This is compatible with the new bms-core Cordova SDK.)

Like David said earlier, you will need to make a native change in the correct directory , so it plays the sound files.