Customize push notification text

This article is for Futurae customers who integrate the Futurae Mobile SDK into their own mobile apps and wish to customize the push notification text that is displayed on the end user’s phone according to specific language or other business requirements.

How to customize the push notification text?

The approach is specific depending on the operating system platform, and below we cover both Android and iOS platforms.

iOS

The iOS push notifications that are sent by the Futurae backend, already have the mutable-content flag set, which means that you can create an app extension to intercept and change the notification in the way you wish. Please find more details at the iOS link available in the Useful references section.

Android

For the Android platform, the push notifications sent by the Futurae backend are data messages (please refer to the Android link in the Useful references section) and your app receives them in the background (in an FirebaseMessagingService subclass), so it can manipulate them as needed, before posting a local visible notification on the system tray/lock screen.

Useful references

iOS modifying push notifications content https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/modifying_content_in_newly_delivered_notifications

Android data messages

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options#data_messages