Sending notification to Android device. Sent but not received

Question

I am getting familiar with sending notifications to devices,

I am currently trying to send a notification to my device using pubnub and Google cloud messaging:

(function() {
    var pubnub = PUBNUB.init({
        subscribe_key: 'my-subscribe',
        publish_key:   'my-publish',
    });

    var os = 'android';
    var regid = '';
    var channel = 'mi-canal';
    
    function sendPush() {
        var gwtype = (os === 'ios') ? 'apns' : 'gcm';
        console.log('sending push notification...',channel,gwtype);

        pubnub.mobile_gw_provision({
            device_id: 'APA91bE0rX8mfzY0VttACffUPIagSbd5No0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxEHCVFBbzPqPHKG9phyQ31O4W6aEgMUqWANtWrK-zdMsiONUwAbUW4efso8ScemlXGM8tJq0M12oR0E2Kk9',
            channel: channel, 
            op: 'add', 
            gw_type: gwtype,
            error: function(msg){console.log(msg);},
            callback: function() {
                var message = PNmessage();

                message.pubnub = pubnub;
                message.callback = function (msg){ console.log(msg); };
                message.error = function (msg){ console.log(msg); };
                message.channel = channel;
                message.apns = {
                    alert: 'The room temperature is set too high'
                };
                message.gcm = {
                    title: 'PubNub Push Demo',
                    message: 'The room temperature is set too high'
                };

                message.publish();
            }            
        });

    }
    sendPush();
})();

Which logs:

[1, "Sent", "14471821928645156"]

the problem is that I don't receive the notification in the device, with and android app (cordova made)

var pushNotification = window.plugins.pushNotification;
            
            
            //pushNotification.unregister(successHandler, errorHandler);
            pushNotification.register(
                successHandler, 
                errorHandler, 
                {
                    'senderID':'api-project-xxxxxxxx',
                    'ecb':'onNotificationGCM' // callback function
                }
            );  
            pusNotification.subscribe({
                channel: 'mi-canal',
                message: function(m){
                    alert('Conslog: '+m);
                },
            error: function (error) {
              // Handle error here
              console.log(JSON.stringify(error));
            }
            });

Any idea what I'm missing?

Answer 1

I personally use OneSignal on my android app and it works like a charm. You can read the documentation here. It's 100% free and also uses Google's cloud messaging service. Basically after installing their SDK and following the entire documentation, your code will be something like this.

Code example:

document.addEventListener('deviceready', function () {
  // Enable to debug issues.
  // window.plugins.OneSignal.setLogLevel({logLevel: 4, visualLevel: 4});
  
  var notificationOpenedCallback = function(jsonData) {
    console.log('didReceiveRemoteNotificationCallBack: ' + JSON.stringify(jsonData));
  };

  window.plugins.OneSignal.init("b2f7f966-d8cc-11e4-bed1-df8f05be55ba",
                                 {googleProjectNumber: "703322744261"},
                                 notificationOpenedCallback);
  
  // Show an alert box if a notification comes in when the user is in your app.
  window.plugins.OneSignal.enableInAppAlertNotification(true);
}, false);

• Replace "b2f7f966-d8cc-11e4-bed1-df8f05be55ba" with your OneSignal App Id.
• Replace "703322744261" with your Google Project Number.

To me, as soon as I send a notification it takes exactly 3 seconds till my phone gets a beep. Hope this helps :)