iOS Question Push Notification Sound

[aaronk]

Hi,

I am using push notifications in my iOS app using Firebase.

I have multiple users using my B4i app, and each user is subscribing to the same topic.

For example:
UserA subscribes to topic 'TEST1'
UserB subscribes to topic 'TEST1'

I am using the B4j Sending Tool from the tutorial to send the push notification.

The push notifications pops up on both phones fine and uses the default tone on the device.

I understand this is because in my B4J app it is telling it to use the default tone as shown below..

Dim iosalert As Map =  CreateMap("title": Title, "body": Body, "sound": "default")

From my understanding I need to change the 'default' value to another filename and it will play the different sound, which is fine.

The question I have is, lets say UserA is happy to get the default sound, but UserB wants to get a different sound.

How can I make UserB have a different sound than UserA, but have both subscribed to the same topic ?

From what I can see, it will be global for all users and can't have different sounds for each user, unless I make each user subscribe to different topics and send them separate with different sound values per topic ?

If the above is correct, if I use 'default' in my code, is there a way in selecting what the default tone is on the iOS device? (maybe the user can just change the default tone to something else locally on there device?)

 

[Erel]

From what I can see, it will be global for all users and can't have different sounds for each user, unless I make each user subscribe to different topics and send them separate with different sound values per topic ?

True. You can also send to "tokens" instead of topics. In both cases you will need to have a server that manages the different keys and sounds.

If there are only few custom sounds available then you can let the users subscribe to specific topics based on the sounds:
TEST1-SOUND1
TEST1-SOUND2
TEST1-SOUND3

You can then send each message to the X topics each time (with different sounds).

The 'default' sound is a global setting that the user can change in the settings app.

 

[aaronk]

If there are only few custom sounds available then you can let the users subscribe to specific topics based on the sounds:

That is a good idea.

The 'default' sound is a global setting that the user can change in the settings app.

I tried looking for this but couldn't find it in the settings app.

 

[Erel]

I tried looking for this but couldn't find it in the settings app.

I also don't see it. Not sure that it is configurable.