Custom Sounds not working.

[mvgalle]

Followed several ideas and examples per and indicated for custom sound using raix/push. However, I am still not getting the custom sounds to play. I either get the default notification sound, or no sound at all. My config.push.json looks like this (and the actual push notifications do indeed appear):

{
"gcm": {
"apiKey": "xxxxxxxx",
"projectNumber": xxxxxxxxxx
},
"production": false,
"badge": true,
"sound": true,
"alert": true,
"vibrate": true
}

I have a server method to send the push notification:

'sendNotification': function(id,username){
Push.send({
from: 'push',
title: 'My App',
text: username + ' Pushed You!',
sound: '/sounds/mySound.mp3',
badge: 1,
query: {
userId: id
}
});
}

I have tried adding cordova.media.plugin but that did not help. All I need is to have a custom push sound. Any help or thoughts for how I could proceed would be great. Thanks everyone.

[Streemo]

I saw you commented this on a different thread. I commented there, but I might as well join this too. I think you have to specify www/application at the beginning of your sound path, since that's where cordova stores assets. Some people say to make it www/application/public ? But if you go exploring in the build, my "meteor public root" is actually under www/application/app. I've brute-force tried all of these path combinations, and none of them work.

[dennisharrison]

Hope this helps (works on iOS and Android):

https://github.com/dennisharrison/mapp-skeletor/tree/master/app/packages/notifications/public/audio

https://github.com/dennisharrison/mapp-skeletor/blob/master/app/packages/notifications/package.js#L37

https://github.com/dennisharrison/mapp-skeletor/blob/master/app/packages/notifications/server/notifications.coffee#L34

[Streemo]

@dennisharrison I see you've manually added the file. I thought putting it in /public would do this. I tried doing this, but the builder yelled at me and told me to change api.addFiles('/path/to/sound.mp3','client') to api.addAssets('/path/to/sound.mp3','client'). It looks like the bundle contains the audio file at the right path. Keep posted.

[Streemo]

@dennisharrison Awesome -- this worked on iOS. For Android, it's very strange.

I have a Galaxy S3, running Android 4.4.2, and I keep getting two different kinds of notifications. Apps like default Messaging will notify me with a double-vibrate, whereas apps like Gmail, MyMeteorCordovaApp, LinkedIn, etc. notifications are a single vibrate with longer duration, which seem to not play sound even if I have notifications' sound on the max. My default Messaging app will notify me with sound.

Does anyone else notice how there are two "types" of notifications on Android -- these GCM push notifications seem to be of the single-vibrate no-sound kind. I am not sure how to normalize these two types of notifications. Is there a setting somewhere?

Thanks.

[MichaelJCole]

@dennisharrison did you get this to work on Android?

After a day of testing, and looking through the code, I don't think this works on Android:

See #156

[dennisharrison]

@MichaelJCole @Streemo

It works with Android with the pinned versions in that project. I don't know about current versions. I'll be updating everything to Meteor 1.2.1 over the holidays here as time permits (side-side-side project ;p)

Best of luck, and if I find anything relevant for updated versions I'll update.

Happy Turkey Day!

[MichaelJCole]

Ok awesome. Super helpful. It looks like the update to 3 has an issue on Andriod. Downgrading is probably the most compatible option.

You too!