Question

I’ve got an Android app with push notifications set up using Urban Airship. The notifications work fine while my app is open but I need to still receive notifications when my app is closed. I’ve looked around but haven’t found something that works. I’m pretty sure the problem is in my manifest, so here it is.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="za.co.foo.android.financials"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="11" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_INTERNAL_STORAGE" />

    <!-- Permissions for Urban Airship -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/> <!-- Not sure if required for C2DM -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BROADCAST_STICKY" />

    <!-- Only this application can receive the messages and registration result -->
    <permission android:name="za.co.foo.android.financials.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" android:protectionLevel="signature" />
    <uses-permission android:name="za.co.foo.android.financials.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" />

    <!-- This app has permission to register and receive message -->
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE" />

    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/icon"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <activity
            android:name=".InvestorRelations"
            android:label="@string/app_name" 
            android:screenOrientation="landscape" 
            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.NoActionBar">

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <!-- For Urban Airship -->
        <receiver android:name="com.urbanairship.CoreReceiver">
        </receiver>

        <receiver android:name="com.urbanairship.push.c2dm.C2DMPushReceiver"
                android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND"
                android:enabled="true">
             <!-- Receive the actual message -->
             <intent-filter>
                 <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
                 <category android:name="za.co.foo.android.financials" />
             </intent-filter>
             <!-- Receive the registration id -->
             <intent-filter>
                 <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION" />
                 <category android:name="za.co.foo.android.financials" />
             </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

        <receiver android:name="za.co.foo.android.financials.IntentReceiver" />

        <service android:name="com.urbanairship.push.PushService" />

    </application>

</manifest>

Here is my IntentReceiver

public class IntentReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    private static final String logTag = "IR Intent Receiver";

    @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Log.i(logTag, "Received intent: " + intent.toString());
        String action = intent.getAction();

        if (action.equals(PushManager.ACTION_PUSH_RECEIVED)) {
            int id = intent.getIntExtra(PushManager.EXTRA_NOTIFICATION_ID, 0);

            Log.i(logTag, "Received push notification. Alert: "
                    + intent.getStringExtra(PushManager.EXTRA_ALERT)
                    + " [NotificationID="+id+"]");

            logPushExtras(intent);

        } else if (action.equals(PushManager.ACTION_NOTIFICATION_OPENED)) {
            Log.i(logTag, "User clicked notification. Message: " + intent.getStringExtra(PushManager.EXTRA_ALERT));

            logPushExtras(intent);

            Intent launch = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
            launch.setClass(UAirship.shared().getApplicationContext(), InvestorRelations.class);
            launch.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
            launch.putExtra("FromNotification", true);

            UAirship.shared().getApplicationContext().startActivity(launch);

        } else if (action.equals(PushManager.ACTION_REGISTRATION_FINISHED)) {
            Log.i(logTag, "Registration complete. APID:" + intent.getStringExtra(PushManager.EXTRA_APID)
                    + ". Valid: " + intent.getBooleanExtra(PushManager.EXTRA_REGISTRATION_VALID, false));
        }

    }

    public void logPushExtras(intent) {
        //Does some logging stuff
    }
}

Any help would be great

Edit

Included the entire manifest with only my company name changed to “foo”.

Edit

As it turns out, my app does receive notifications while closed, but not after a force-close. Realised after reading this question.

Answer 1

It turns out the notifications worked fine whether the app was running or not. The problem was when the app was force-closed.

I think the actual problem is something along the lines of the BroadcastReceiver being killed when the app is force closed but I’m not sure.

This is just to close the question off because it’s unlikely to be solved now that I realise the problem is different to the question title.