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[FR]: Adding data only push notifications for communication (and other) style display of notifications

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, ios
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start with the Capacitor Push Notifications plugin and read the linked Android notification-group and Apple communication-notification documentation. Define the supported data-only push behavior, rich notification presentation, grouping, avatars, and actions for both platforms; done means the requested presentation works when the app is foregrounded, backgrounded, or closed.

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Description

platform: ios

Feature Request

Plugin

Capacitor Push Notifications

Description
  1. Add functionality to create rich chat message notifications. Creating more meaningful notifications helps drive engagement and response times.

Documentation to implement:
https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications/group

Add functionality to hook into the following 2 lines on the notification builder:

    .setLargeIcon(emailObject.getSenderAvatar())
    .setGroup(GROUP_ID)

My proposal would be to allow data only notifications for Capacitor's Push Notifications. This would give us the ability to handle the presentation style of notifications. It'd also be great if we could also add actions in the push notifications.

NOTE:
I'm aware this functionality is available on local notifications, but this doesn't help when your relying on push (as our app will be closed often). Essentially trying to get a system similar to what Whatsapp, Signal, etc have with their notifications (always displays rich notifications with actions, regardless if in foreground / background or closed).

Platform(s)

iOS (communication notifications - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10091/)
Android (Group notifications - https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications/group)

Dominant language
Java
Stars
678
Forks
688
Avg merge
5d 11h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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