Custom notification sound is not played while the app is in foreground

[PuscasAdi]

Bug Report

Plugin(s)

@capacitor/push-notifications": "^4.0.0"

Capacitor Version

Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/ios: 4.6.2

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.1
  @capacitor/ios: 4.6.1
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.1
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.1

Platform(s)

Android

Current Behavior

I created an android notification channel and a custom notification sound for it. The issue is that the custom sound only plays while the user has the app closed or in background.

Expected Behavior

The custom notification sound should be played even if the app is in foreground.

Code Reproduction

await PushNotifications.createChannel(
            {id: 'orders', name: 'orders', importance: 3, sound: 'order_sound'}
      );

Other Technical Details

Additional Context

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[RaddishIoW]

Could be related to #1368

[RaddishIoW]

I created a PR which should fix this issue - it will allow you to use a custom channel for foreground notifications.

[RaddishIoW]

This is caused by the fact that the plugin creates it's own special channel for displaying notifications when the app is in the foreground (and you have the 'alert' presentation option set in the config for the plugin).
Subsequently, all notifications received when the app is in the foreground ignore the channel specified in the notification payload and instead post to this special foreground channel. Currently, there is no control over this behaviour or the sound played for this channel.

My PR (#1423) fixes this by allowing you to specify a sound, or in fact specify the channel yourself for foreground notifications.

[RaddishIoW]

I've given up and created my own plugin to fix this, in case anyone comes across this...
@haylltd/capacitor-push-notifications
It's a drop-in replacement for the official plugin. PRs welcome.

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