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Android

Posted by Faiz Ahmed
Faiz Ahmed
42 Points

Notifications

Hey Ben! an you please show us how to enable notifications in our app so that the user is alerted when a new message appears!! Please!

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Ask and you shall receive! But it won't be ready for a few weeks--I just recorded it yesterday. You need to first walk through this Quickstart guide: https://parse.com/apps/quickstart#parse_push/android/existing Make sure you get the latest version of Parse as there were Android Push bugs in earlier versions.

Then you need to go into your settings in your Parse app and enable client-to-client push notifications.

Then, add this on a successful login or signup:

protected void updateParseInstallation() {
        ParseInstallation installation = ParseInstallation.getCurrentInstallation();
        installation.put(ParseConstants.KEY_USER_ID, ParseUser.getCurrentUser().getObjectId());
        installation.saveInBackground();
    }

The idea is to associate the logged-in user with the ParseInstallation object.

Then, when you send a new message, add this: 

    protected void sendPushNotifications() {
        // Create our Installation query
        ParseQuery<ParseInstallation> pushQuery = ParseInstallation.getQuery();
        pushQuery.whereContainedIn(ParseConstants.KEY_USER_ID, getRecipientIds()); // KEY_USER_ID = "userId"

        // Send push notification to Parse
        ParsePush push = new ParsePush();
        push.setQuery(pushQuery);
        push.setMessage(getString(R.string.push_message, ParseUser.getCurrentUser().getUsername()));
        push.sendInBackground();
    }

I'll explain it all in much more detail in the videos, but hopefully this gets you started!

Faiz Ahmed
Faiz Ahmed
42 Points

Thank you! Really helpful..