[Unity] Registering push notifications specifically for Async turns.

immortal.ray.dev

My game only needs to send push notifications when the matched player has completed their turn in ASYNC match. I know the SubmitTurn function has an argument for push notification message. So how do I register just for this notification. The docs have information about sending our own push notifications which isn't needed for my game at the moment.
Thanks in advance!

Paul Winterhalder

Hi @immortal-ray-dev,

Is your game online or offline? If it's online - it's better to enable RTT - and then receive the events that are sent as players make their turns. You register for the generic event handler to receive those events.
https://docs.braincloudservers.com/api/capi/rtt/registerrtteventcallback

The Push Notification capability is used mostly for cosmetic push notifications - which have the advantage of causing the user to launch back into the app. The brainCloud client doesn't have a handler for those - you'd have to use the platform-specific (i.e. ios vs. android, etc.) to receive those messages.

I hope this helps!

Paul.

immortal.ray.dev

@Paul-Winterhalder The users can be offline. One user plays their turn and exits the game. After the opponent plays their turn, the offline user should receive push notification to launch the game and play their turn.

RTT in enabled and works as expected. When both users are online, the match status is updated correctly. I need the push notification sent when the offline user has to play their turn. The docs were helpful but I'm a little lost on how to enable it so that the user receives a simple "Your opponent has played their turn. You turn now!" notification after the following code is called.

AsyncMatchService.SubmitTurn(
            currentMatch.ownerId,
            currentMatch.matchId,
            (ulong)currentMatch.version,
            JsonWriter.Serialize(matchState),
            "Your opponent has played their turn. You turn now!", // Push notif message
            currentMatch.matchedProfile.ProfileId,
            null,
            null,
            OnSubmitSuccess,
            OnSubmitFailure
        );

Paul Winterhalder

Ah - okay - the process of setting your app for push notifications depends a lot on the platform. From a brainCloud API perspective - you need to register the push notification device token with brainCloud. That's done via this method:
https://docs.braincloudservers.com/api/capi/pushnotification/registerpushnotificationdevicetoken

But first - you need to set up push notification services for your app with the the iOS App Store or Google Play store. These tutorials will help:

I hope that helps!

Paul.

immortal.ray.dev

@Paul-Winterhalder Thank you. Just one question. What is the topic variable in Firebase docs in the link you sent?

JasonL

In the code, it's just a string variable, for the further concept of "topic", you can refer to this link -- https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/topic-messaging

Paul Winterhalder

Hi @immortal-ray-dev ,

I think that line for subscribing to topics wouldn't be necessary to receive the brainCloud push notifications... we send them directly to the users via the device tokens. Try eliminating it...

(We're checking on our end as well - will remove from the example if unnecessary).

Paul.

JasonL

For clarity, Firebase Cloud Messaging recommends creating a topic using Pub/Sub, though this approach is optional.