[Aerogear-users] cordova push android BigText
On ios the message text wraps when a long message is displayed but on android only one
line is displayed by default, truncating if too long.
In a previous thread Erik pointed out that there is a lot of freedom for how messages are
displayed in the Android notifications panel by making changes to
NotificationMessageHandler.java.
I coded up a change so I could test BigTextStyle in android. Using BigTextStyle on
android lets the text wrap to multiple lines.
With the change I can use a UPS request like:
{
"alias":["someuser"],
"message":{
"alert":"a long message"",
"badge":33,
"gglbigtxt":"a long message",
"gglsummry":"unread count",
"gglinfo":"33"
}
}
to display wrapping messages in both android and ios. Adding a summary line for the count
value helps mitigate the missing badges on android.
I added the "gglinfo" key to display any value in the info area. The
"msgcnt" key displays in the info area but will not display a number less than
1.
In NotificationMessageHandler.java before the line:
manager.notify(appName, NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());
add:
String tmp;
if ((tmp = extras.getString("gglbigtxt")) != null) {
NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle bigStyle = new
NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle().bigText(tmp);
if ((tmp = extras.getString("gglsummry")) != null)
bigStyle.setSummaryText(tmp);
if ((tmp = extras.getString("gglbigttl")) != null)
bigStyle.setBigContentTitle(tmp);
builder.setStyle(bigStyle);
}
if ((tmp = extras.getString("gglinfo")) != null)
builder.setContentInfo(tmp);
I'm not recommending this be added to the plugin project as is, but it might be worth
looking at.
- Kelvin