[Aerogear-users] cordova push android BigText

[Sebastien Blanc]

Hi !

Thanks a lot for this tip and indeed I think it's worth a discussion to see
if we could add some of these (android specific)  keys to our sender API.

Sebi


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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