Expo has an amazing push notification service. In order to display push notifications in a pop-up style (the default on iOS) on Android, you must do two things:
- Create an Android push notification channel
- Set the
priorityandchannelIdin the push notification payload to expo.
Create channel example:
import React from "react";
import { Platform } from "react-native";
import { Notifications } from "expo";
class App extends React.Component<Props> {
componentDidMount() {
if (Platform.OS === "android") {
Notifications.createChannelAndroidAsync("chat-messages", {
name: "Messages",
priority: "max",
sound: true,
vibrate: [0, 250, 500, 250]
});
}
}
render() {
// ...
}
}
Send PN with priority and channel example:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "https://exp.host/--/api/v2/push/send" -d '{
"to": "ExponentPushToken[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]",
"title":"New Message",
"body": "Are you there?",
"channelId": "chat-messages",
"priority": "max"
}'