[Aerogear-users] cordova push android BigText

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Fri Aug 14 02:13:01 EDT 2015


I agree, would be for sure a nice option, even for the native Android lib?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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