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Foreground and background notifications OK, but what about when the app is killed?

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, firebase, ios, typescript

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing notification documentation covering foreground and background application states, then compare the documented behavior with killed-state handling on iOS and Android. Done means documenting whether notification-open detection or other handling is supported when the app is killed, including any platform differences or limitations.

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Description

Hi,
The documentation talks about how the application state affects notifications while in foreground and background, but there is no information on when the application is killed. Is there anything we can do when an application is killed? Can we detect the if the application has been opened from a notification or something?

I have had complaints that the app I am working on "only" opens when a notification has been received and the application is killed, compared to when it's in the background and I change page when the notification is tapped on. I was wondering if there is something I'm missing or some logic I can add for this.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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