React Native Notifications
Adding custom notification categories and custom notification channels for React Native
Adding Custom Notification Categories
The Airship module supports adding custom notification categories on iOS, and custom notification action button groups on Android, by way of a specially named plist and XML file, respectively. Once these files are added to your iOS and Android projects, the module will load this file at runtime and automatically register your custom categories with the Airship API.
iOS Setup
Add a new plist file to your app’s Xcode project, named UACustomNotificationCategories.plist,
and make sure to add the file to your application’s target.
The structure of the plist file follows the format used by the core Airship SDK for its default categories. As a starting point, see the example below. Note that key and string values prefixed with “ua_” are reserved by the Airship SDK.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>yes_no_background</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>authenticationRequired</key>
<true/>
<key>foreground</key>
<false/>
<key>identifier</key>
<string>yes</string>
<key>title</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>title_resource</key>
<string>notification_button_yes</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>authenticationRequired</key>
<true/>
<key>foreground</key>
<false/>
<key>identifier</key>
<string>no</string>
<key>title</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>title_resource</key>
<string>notification_button_no</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>yes_no_foreground</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>foreground</key>
<true/>
<key>identifier</key>
<string>yes</string>
<key>title</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>title_resource</key>
<string>notification_button_yes</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>authenticationRequired</key>
<true/>
<key>foreground</key>
<false/>
<key>identifier</key>
<string>no</string>
<key>title</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>title_resource</key>
<string>notification_button_no</string>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>Android Setup
First, add a new xml file to your app’s main/res/xml directory, named ua_custom_notification_buttons.xml.
As with the iOS example above, the structure of this XML file follows the format used by the core Airship SDK for its default categories. And as before, entities and resource names with the “ua_” prefix are reserved by the Airship SDK. A similar example is given below. The icon and label resources shown are only examples; to create custom categories of your own, you should either use built-in Android resources or supply resources defined by your app.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<UrbanAirshipActionButtonGroup id="yes_no_foreground">
<UrbanAirshipActionButton
foreground="true"
id="yes"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_notification_button_accept"
android:label="@string/notification_button_yes"/>
<UrbanAirshipActionButton
foreground="false"
id="no"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_notification_button_decline"
android:label="@string/notification_button_no"/>
</UrbanAirshipActionButtonGroup>
<UrbanAirshipActionButtonGroup id="yes_no_background">
<UrbanAirshipActionButton
foreground="false"
id="yes"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_notification_button_accept"
android:label="@string/notification_button_yes"/>
<UrbanAirshipActionButton
foreground="false"
id="no"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_notification_button_decline"
android:label="@string/notification_button_no"/>
</UrbanAirshipActionButtonGroup>
</resources>Adding Custom Notification Channels (Android)
The Airship module also supports adding custom notification channels on Android, by supplying a specially named XML file.
First, add a new xml file to your app’s main/res/xml directory, named ua_custom_notification_channels.xml.
The structure of this XML file follows the format used by the core Airship SDK for its default notification channels. A simple example is shown below. Note that entities and resource names with the “ua_” prefix are reserved by the Airship SDK. To create custom notification channels of your own, you should either use built-in Android resources or supply resources defined by your app.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<NotificationChannel
id="com.myapp.my_channel"
name="@string/my_channel_name"
description="@string/my_channel_description"
importance="3" />
</resources>
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