Applications

Push notifications

Push notifications in the Rehive apps are facilitated by the Expo framework on which the mobile react native app is built. The Rehive white-label mobile app already has all the necessary push notification code integrated - you just need to configure the services.

Setup

The white-label app comes with push notification functionality pre-built. To enable push notifications:

1. Setup Firebase for Android:

  • Go to the Firebase console and create a new project
  • In the console, click the setting icon next to Project overview and open Project settings
  • Under Your apps, click the Android icon to add Firebase to your Android app
  • Make sure the Android package name matches the value of android.package from your app config
  • Download the google-services.json file and place it in your project’s root directory
  • Follow the “Uploading Server Credentials” section of Expo’s FCM guide

2. Request activation from Rehive:

  • Contact Rehive support to activate push notifications on the Notification extension for your company
  • Provide them with your app ID

3. Configure notifications in the dashboard:

  • Once activated, go to the Notification extension in your Rehive Dashboard
  • Configure the notification templates and settings for different events
  • Set up which events should trigger push notifications

Note: The white-label app already includes the code to:

  • Request push notification permissions from users
  • Register devices and tokens with Rehive
  • Handle incoming push notifications
  • Display notifications to users

This functionality is automatically triggered during user registration and can be managed in the app’s settings.

How this works

  • The notification service receives the event and if a push notification is configured for it, it tries to process it.
  • If the user has /user/devices/ on the platform, then service will fetch all expo tokens from each device’s list of apps.
  • Using these tokens, the service will create a push notification on expo.
  • Expo will hand these notifications over to FCM and APN (Apple Push Notification Service) and these will be sent to the device.