Question

I created an app for iPhone and Android using Phonegap.

Now I wanted to add push functionality which already works pretty good.

When a push message arrives on my iPhone I get a message on the homescreen. If I swipe it, iOS will open my application. – So far so good.

Now, within my PhoneGap app I need to check what that message actually says in order to open the correct view within my app via JavaScript.

I know there are quite some posts about this but I couldn’t find some clear answers to these questions:

• Does PhoneGap support push messages?
• If yes, where is the documentation for that?
• If not, which plugins/frameworks can be recommended? So far I found pushwoosh and Urbanair. Are they any good?
• Regarding Pushwoosh, I noticed that I need some kind of pushwoosh ID – Why that?

Answer 1

I found a really easy solution without using a framework.

I simply added the following code to the very end of the method didFinishLaunchingWithOptions (Right before the return statement):

if (launchOptions != nil)
{
    NSDictionary* dictionary = [launchOptions objectForKey:UIApplicationLaunchOptionsRemoteNotificationKey];
    if (dictionary != nil)
    {
        NSLog(@"Launched from push notification: %@", dictionary);
        [self addMessageFromRemoteNotification:dictionary updateUI:NO];
    }
}

Also, I added this new method to my AppDelegate.m which gets the payload from the push message:

- (void)application:(UIApplication*)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary*)userInfo
{
    NSLog(@"Received notification: %@", userInfo);
    [self addMessageFromRemoteNotification:userInfo updateUI:YES];
}

(The NSLog calls above will show you what’s inside the push message)

As a last step, I added this listener to do what ever I want with the payload:

- (void)addMessageFromRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary*)userInfo updateUI:(BOOL)updateUI
{
 // do what ever you want with userInfo
}

If you want to do an additional JavaScript call with this info, I recommend using:

[self.viewController.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"callSomeJSFunction()"];

Of course you can also pass arguments as strings into that JS function if you want.