Feature Request: Enable iOS Silent Push Notifications in Capacitor

[bluepuma77]

Description

Support iOS Silent Push Notifications to be able to trigger JavaScript functions within Capacitor

Platforms

• iOS
• Android
• Web

Request or proposed solution

Support iOS Silent Push Notifications to be able to trigger JavaScript functions like a file download. Use cases are many, you may need to update content/files within the app, and it needs to be available next time the app is opened, even when no network is available, like on most flights.

Alternatives

The doc states to use native implementation, but this kind of defeats the purpose of Capacitor.

Additional Information

I'm hoping this can be easily implemented with a few lines of code as the regular push notifications are already working.

[aparajita]

We have a simple plugin we have been using that implements this. I'll publish it to npm next week.

[bluepuma77]

@aparajita That would be great! 🥳

[bluepuma77]

What's the actual problem with @capacitor/push-notifications library, that it is not compatible with "iOS Silent Push Notifications"? Shouldn't it really just need very few lines of code to make it work? Happy to support testing.

@markemer Do you have any insights? It seems you were the last one working on this module.

[aparajita]

@bluepuma77 yes it would require only a few lines of code, at least that has been our experience. Not sure why they didn't implement it.

[bluepuma77]

@aparajita You offered to create a npm package. To make it easier for you, could you simply provide a template on Github?

[aparajita]

Here's what we are using currently. Needs a little updating, but works: https://github.com/willsub/capacitor-ios-remote-notifications

[bluepuma77]

Found two more related Github repos:

1. capacitor-ios-background-push would not compile, opened an issue
2. capacitor-plugin-silent-notifications finally seems to work, sending SilentNotification with apns2

[aparajita]

@bluepuma77 I just released capacitor-ios-silent-notifications.

[Eraldo]

@bluepuma77 I just released capacitor-ios-silent-notifications.

Thanks @aparajita. 🙏
PS: Would be nice to have this integrated into @capacitor/push-notifications. 😅
You did a nice job of showing how it's done. 👏