React-native: display foreground notifications like background notifications with zo0r/react-native-push-notification

Question

I have set up push notifications on my React-native app with zo0r / react-native-push-notification . It works on Android, and on iOS when the app is in background mode.

However, the notification does not display when the app is in foreground mode with iOS . I'm aware that I have to handle the notification when in foreground mode but I'd like to display them exactly the same way there are displayed when in background mode.

So I did the following:

import {PushNotificationIOS} from 'react-native';

PushNotification.configure({
...
   onNotification: function(notification) {
      if (notification.foreground) {
         PushNotification.localNotification(notification);
      }
      notification.finish(PushNotificationIOS.FetchResult.NoData);
   },
...
}

But nothing happens, the notification is still not displayed, what am I missing?

Answer 1

I had to add some configuration inside the ios file AppDelegate.m

Following this gist did make it work.

My code look like:

onNotification(notification) {
  if (isIos) {
    if (
      notification.foreground &&
      (notification.userInteraction || notification.remote)
    ) {
      PushNotification.localNotification(notification);
    }
    notification.finish(PushNotificationIOS.FetchResult.NoData);
  } else {
    if (notification.foreground) {
      PushNotification.localNotification(notification);
    }
  }
},

I also set popInitialNotification to true