🤷‍♂️ How to open the browser with a link when tapping on a notification?

[fabyeah]

When the user taps on the notification, I want to open the browser with a specific link, instead of opening the app. I think FCM has onNotificationOpened for this. But @react-native-firebase/messaging only offers onNotificationOpenedApp which triggers when the app is opened as response to tapping on the notification. So this isn't possible with this package, is that correct? So I need to use a different package, like Notifee?

[mikehardy]

If you want to do anything with notifications other than have a basic hook to your application, you should integrate a full-featured on-device notification API handler, like notifee yes. At the same time, for this use case I imagine you could implement react-native Linking to then open a browser ? This is an API usage question vs something with this module though - it will not result in a change to the module so I'm going to close this - at the same time, hopefully this helps. Cheers

[fabyeah]

I tried to use Linking, but it will only open the url after opening the app first. I will look into Notifee, which has pressAction for notifications and custom activities for android (https://notifee.app/react-native/docs/android/interaction#advanced-android-custom-activity). But I'm not sure if opening a URL can be implemented, and also there's no custom activities for iOS :(

[mikehardy]

I'm not sure how to handle this use case either but if you ask on the notifee repo you might get a good answer and we can all learn something 🤓

[fabyeah]

Ah apparently I can just use Linking in the setBackgroundMessageHandler 🎉
But as the package doesn't offer a press event handler like Notifee (???), the browser will be opened immediately upon receiving the notification 😔. Well but then I can do this with Notifee at least 👍