Hide foreground notification with --variable on iOS

[XavierBesnault]

Was inspired by #835

Install the plugin with cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebase --variable IOS_HIDE_FOREGROUND_NOTIFICATION="true" to hide notifications on iOS when foreground.

Also added a value foreground: "true" in the notification payload for both Android and iOS when the notification is received in foreground to be able to manage this specific case in the Javascript side, especially useful when the notification is hidden.

[wildhart]

Looking at the comments on #835 it looks like using UNNotificationPresentationOptionNone doesn't work in all cases - me an others still get the notifications when the app is in the foreground.

[XavierBesnault]

@wildhart
What's your iOS device version ?
What's your cordova/cordova-ios version ?
What plugins do you have ?
Did you put a breakpoint in the function in XCode ? Does it go through ?

[wildhart]

What's your iOS device version ? I'm testing on a iPad 4 mini, iOS 12.0.1
What's your cordova/cordova-ios version ? cordova-ios 4.5.4 - not sure of the cordova version - whatever comes with Meteor 1.6.1.1
What plugins do you have ?

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Did you put a breakpoint in the function in XCode ? Does it go through ? I can't easily do that - I'm actually compiling the iOS app on a VM. I can get the app to run on the iOS simulator but notifications don't really work on the simulator, but I do get the callback when the app comes into the foreground.

However, when I upload to TestFlight, then on my iPad Mini the notifications come through whether the app is open or not. With or without changing AppDelegate+FirebasePlugin.m line 168 to UNNotificationPresentationOptionNone

Sorry, my setup is not very typical, but other commentators on #835 report the same problem.

[sebastianludwig]

This definitely works as expected - good work 👍

[lmanata]

@soumak77 @briantq Ran into this issue and was happy to see a PR was already open.

The requested changes also seem to have been handled so I was wondering if this needs further changes or is just awaiting reviews.

Thanks!

[globules-io]

Any update on this please?

[tom-hartz]

Yo @XavierBesnault ! FYI, I opened a new PR that covers this as well. I took your idea one step further and made it configurable via API method instead of using config.xml setting.

We should only merge one of these, either yours or mine.
#1056

Take a look and let me know what you think!