How to display each push notification separately on android device using GCM

Question

I am sending push notification to my phonegap app from server. Its getting delivered successfully, but the problem is if I send multiple notifications old one get overrides. For example at 10:00 AM - Notification 1 Received at 10:01 AM Notification 2 Received
in this Notification 1 Received get overwrite by second message. But I want to show both messages as they important. I googled it and found solution on stackoverflow for same.

GCM message is getting overridden?

but its for android, and I am using phonegap and php to send notification, is there any way to assign that we can retain both messages on user screen.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your issue is with the payload data you are sending with PHP.

From the documentation at https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/http-server-ref#notification-payload-support

tag: Indicates whether each notification message results in a new entry on the notification center on Android. If not set, each request creates a new notification. If set, and a notification with the same tag is already being shown, the new notification replaces the existing one in notification center.

One option is to treat tag as a uniqid , as long as you do not really need to go back and update some unread notifications. If you do need to update a notification, choose an id that works in your case.