Custom notification sound in background mode?

[quedicesebas]

Why I can't the app play a custom sound with the notification when is in background? I'm sending the sound name in the notification...I neither can make this to work in the previous version of the plugin.

I have beep.wav in my www folder. For Android I'm sending 'soundname': 'beep.wav' in the payload, and 'sound': 'beep.wav' for iOS

My code:

App:

var push = PushNotification.init({
    "android": {
        "senderID": "..."//I put here my GCM senrder id
    },
    "ios": {}
});

push.on('registration', function(data) {
    // data.registrationId
    registerNotificationToken(data.registrationId, (window.device.platform == 'android' || device.platform == 'Android') ? 'Android' : 'iOS');
});

push.on('notification', function(data) {
    // data.message,
    // data.title,
    // data.count,
    // data.sound,
    // data.additionalData
    if (isLogedIn()) {

        if (window.device.platform == 'android' || device.platform == 'Android') {

            // if this flag is set, this notification happened while we were in the foreground.
            // you might want to play a sound to get the user's attention, throw up a dialog, etc.
            if ( data.additionalData.foreground )
            {
                var my_media = new Media("/android_asset/www/" + data.sound);
                my_media.play();

                alertify.confirm('<p><strong>' + data.title + '</strong><p/><p>' + data.message + '</p><p>¿Desea verlo?</p>', function () {

                    location.hash = 'available-services\\' + data.additionalData.id;
                });
            }
            // otherwise we were launched because the user touched a notification in the notification tray.
            else {   
                //If app wasn't runing
                if ( e.coldstart ) {

                    serviceId = data.additionalData.id;
                }
                else {

                    location.hash = 'available-services\\' + data.additionalData.id;
                }
            }
        }
        else {

            if ( data.additionalData.alert ) {

                //do something with the push message. This function is fired when push message is received or if user clicks on the tile.
                if (data.additionalData.foreground == 1) {

                    alertify.confirm('<p><strong>' + data.title+ '</strong><p/><p>' + data.message + '</p><p>¿Desea verlo?</p>', function () {

                        location.hash = 'available-services\\' + data.additionalData.id;
                    });
                }
                else {

                    location.hash = 'available-services\\' + data.additionalData.id;
                }
            }

            if ( data.sound ) {

                //play notification sound. Ignore when app is in foreground.
                var snd = new Media(data.sound);
                snd.play();
            }
        }
    }

[quedicesebas]

Anyone had the opportunity to test it? It's a bug or it's possible I'm doing something wrong?

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 root cause of the issue is sounds in the assets folder are private to the app and not accessible from the notification service.

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 So, I've been working on this a bit tonight. The sound file will need to get copied from the asset/www folder to the res/raw folder on Android in order to work. I will look at creating a hook for this soon and test on iOS as well.

[quedicesebas]

I'm glad to know it, please let me know if you need anything, test on Andorid for example

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 if you pull the latest from this github repo then you can test. You have to put the sound file in the platforms/android/res/raw directory and when you send the push just use it's name, omit the extension.

[quedicesebas]

I tried it but doesn't work. I put the beep.wav file in platforms/android/res/raw, and if I look into the apk file is in it. In the payload I sent 'soundname': 'beep'. Missing something?

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 sorry, did you pull from the issue17 branch?

[quedicesebas]

Nooo, my bad. This afternoon I'm gonna try again, I need it so bad. What about iOS?

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 No, my bad. I forgot to mention the branch. I took a look at iOS and it should work but I need to double check where the sound should be packaged on iOS.

[quedicesebas]

Ok, let me know

[quedicesebas]

It works on Android (OnePLus One, OxygenOS, Android 5.0.2, using a .wav audio and a .mp3)!! But the sound starts and starts again like half a second later (so is cropped and then it plays all). And in foreground is worst, starts over and over again

[quedicesebas]

I'm gonna used in an app besides that. Please let me know when you know something about iOS

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 I'm testing on a Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 running Android 5.1.1 and can't reproduce.

[quedicesebas]

What about iOS?

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 swinging back around to iOS tomorrow :)

[macdonst]

@sebrojas14 I got a chance to test this and it works. If I do the following to generate a proper sound:

afconvert /System/Library/Sounds/Submarine.aiff ~/Desktop/sub.caf -d ima4 -f caff -v

and put the resulting sub.caf in the root of my Xcode project then send the following push:

{
    "aps": {
        "alert": "test sub", 
        "sound": "sub.caf"
    }
}

I hear the correct sound.

See this link for more info: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/IPhoneOSClientImp.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH103-SW6

[macdonst]

Merged the fix

[alexislg2]

What do you mean "put the resulting sub.caf in the root of my Xcode project". In the directory /platforms/ios/ ? or /platforms/ios/project_name/ ? Or inside the xcode project tree?

Documentation is not so clear about it, neither about if we have to pass sound.mp3 or sound as a payload. I'll make a PR for the doc if I got a chance to make it work!

[macdonst]

@alexislg2 It would be /platforms/ios. If you see the above comment you are supposed to supply an extension. Also, .mp3 may not work. Check the https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/IPhoneOSClientImp.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH103-SW6 link for information on what file types iOS supports.

[alexislg2]

Thanks. In fact what I didn't get was that I have to drag and drop the file
inside the Xcode project
It's working now

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Simon MacDonald notifications@github.com
wrote:

@alexislg2 https://github.com/alexislg2 It would be /platforms/ios. If
you see the above comment you are supposed to supply an extension. Also,
.mp3 may not work. Check the
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/IPhoneOSClientImp.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH103-SW6
link for information on what file types iOS supports.

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[dbadb]

Here we are in Sep 2016 and this issue raises its ugly head again :-)

I have working files residing here: "www/snd/beep.caf". I'm referencing these files from the APN server with the same relative path in the notification payload. These work on IOS 9 but not on IOS 10.0.1 (from the same build!). Either its a new behavior triggered by compat layers in IOS 10 or its a bug in IOS 10. Here's a thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39400703/ios10-custom-push-notification-sound-not-playing. My impression is that it's not as straightforward as the answer suggests. That is, the claim there is that it's an xcode 8 bug.

I'm not confident that the relative path references should be expected to work or fail (though they work on iOS 9) and welcome any thoughts/comments on this matter.,

[abdohossam5]

same issue here with ios 10

Using version 1.8.2 of the plugin and testing on iphone 6s. sound was working fine on ios 9 and even on ios 10 when running the app using cordova run ios. The issue only occurs when running with xcode not sure about the store version yet.

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