iOS Question Enable/Disable Firebase Push Notifications by User

aminoacid said:

I am using Firebase notifications in one of my B4I and B4A Apps and they work very well. The code is based on the example posted by Erel:

[B4X] Firebase Push Notifications 2023+

Google has deprecated the previous method of sending push notifications. It will stop working on June 2024. If you have an already working solution then you only need to update the B4J side. Do make sure that you switched from the service to a receiver on B4A. The new API is (confusingly) named...

www.b4x.com

But now I'm trying to figure out a way in which the user can temporarily "mute" the notifications and then "unmute" them as needed. I can't seem to find any way in the example above (the B4I part) that will allow me to add or modify the code to temporarily disable notifications and then re-enable them. I realize that iOS apps don't run in the background, but I have seen other iOS apps that will allow you to temporarily mute these notifications when too many have been received without having to do so in the main phone Settings.

Has anyone accomplished this? Any ideas or suggestions? ...... Thanks!

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ddefrain said:

If you handle a flag?
If it is enabled allow the receive notification, in the other hand not
I use KeyValuestore to store/retrieve the flag

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aminoacid said:

Duh... Now why didn't I think of this?
Thanks aeric!

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aeric said:

You may click on the checkmark at the side of my answer to mark as solution.

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Public Sub UnSubscribe (Topics() As Object)
    For Each topic As String In Topics
        fm.UnsubscribeFromTopic("ios_" & topic)
    Next
End Sub

Private Sub chkMute_CheckedChange(Checked As Boolean)
    If Checked Then
        CallSub2(FirebaseMessaging, "UnSubscribe", Array("general"))
    Else
        CallSub2(FirebaseMessaging, "SubscribeToTopics", Array("general"))
    End If
End Sub

aeric said:

I thought on the opposite way which is instead: check to receive notification, uncheck to stop receiving notification.
You may have more than one checkboxes with different topics.
e.g
I want to receive notification on product updates
I want to receive notification on promotions
I want to receive notification on new messages

But it is not right or wrong. Just how the way you design your app.

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aeric said:

But isn't it not nice to auto enable the notification (without their consent or knowledge)? Unless you have put a message informing them about it.

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aeric said:

If you are sending the notification using topic then you can let your user to unsubscribe it by unchecking on a checkbox in setting page of your app.

When they want to reenable back the notification, they will just need to check on the same checkbox to subscribe to the same topic.

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