Flutter: Push notifications even if the app is closed

Question

I have built an application with flutter that works like a reminder.
How can I display notifications to the user even though the app is closed?

Answer 1

I have found a solution to this problem. We just have to register the Local Notification Plugin in the Application class.

First Create a class FlutterLocalNotificationPluginRegistrant, I have created this in Kotlin.

class FlutterLocalNotificationPluginRegistrant {

companion object {
    fun registerWith(registry: PluginRegistry) {
        if (alreadyRegisteredWith(registry)) {
            Log.d("Local Plugin", "Already Registered");
            return
        }
        FlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.registerWith(registry.registrarFor("com.dexterous.flutterlocalnotifications.FlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin"))
        Log.d("Local Plugin", "Registered");
    }

    private fun alreadyRegisteredWith(registry: PluginRegistry): Boolean {
        val key = FlutterLocalNotificationPluginRegistrant::class.java.canonicalName
        if (registry.hasPlugin(key)) {
            return true
        }
        registry.registrarFor(key)
        return false
    }
}}

Now create a Application class extending FlutterApplication and implement PluginRegistry.PluginRegistrantCallback.

class Application : FlutterApplication(), PluginRegistry.PluginRegistrantCallback {

override fun onCreate() {
    super.onCreate()
}

override fun registerWith(registry: PluginRegistry?) {
    if (registry != null) {
        FlutterLocalNotificationPluginRegistrant.registerWith(registry)
    }
}}

and register the Application class in the AndroidManifest.xml

All done. Now write a function to show notification and call it from the background handler method of Firebase messaging.

    Future _showNotificationWithDefaultSound(String title, String message) async {
  var androidPlatformChannelSpecifics = AndroidNotificationDetails(
      'channel_id', 'channel_name', 'channel_description',
      importance: Importance.Max, priority: Priority.High);
  var iOSPlatformChannelSpecifics = IOSNotificationDetails();
  var platformChannelSpecifics = NotificationDetails(
      androidPlatformChannelSpecifics, iOSPlatformChannelSpecifics);
   await flutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.show(
    0,
    '$title',
    '$message',
    platformChannelSpecifics,
    payload: 'Default_Sound',
  );
}

and call it like this.

    Future myBackgroundMessageHandler(Map message) async {

  if (message['data'] != null) {
    final data = message['data'];

    final title = data['title'];
    final body = data['message'];

    await _showNotificationWithDefaultSound(title, message);
  }
  return Future.value();
}