# Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for Android and iOS [![Gem Version](https://badge.fury.io/rb/fcm.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/rb/fcm) [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/spacialdb/fcm.png?branch=master)](http://travis-ci.org/spacialdb/fcm) The FCM gem lets your ruby backend send notifications to Android and iOS devices via [ Firebase Cloud Messaging](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/). ## Installation $ gem install fcm or in your `Gemfile` just include it: ```ruby gem 'fcm' ``` ## Requirements For Android you will need a device running 2.3 (or newer) that also have the Google Play Store app installed, or an emulator running Android 2.3 with Google APIs. iOS devices are also supported. One of the following, tested Ruby versions: - `2.0.0` - `2.1.10` - `2.2.10` - `2.3.8` - `2.4.5` - `2.5.3` ## Usage For your server to send a message to one or more devices, you must first initialise a new `FCM` class with your Firebase Cloud Messaging server key, and then call the `send` method on this and give it 1 or more (up to 1000) registration tokens as an array of strings. You can also optionally send further [HTTP message parameters](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/http-server-ref) like `data` or `time_to_live` etc. as a hash via the second optional argument to `send`. Example sending notifications: ```ruby require 'fcm' fcm = FCM.new("my_server_key") # you can set option parameters in here # - all options are pass to HTTParty method arguments # - ref: https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/blob/master/lib/httparty.rb#L29-L60 # fcm = FCM.new("my_server_key", timeout: 3) registration_ids= ["12", "13"] # an array of one or more client registration tokens # See https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/fcm/rest/v1/projects.messages for all available options. options = { "notification": { "title": "Portugal vs. Denmark", "body": "5 to 1" } } response = fcm.send(registration_ids, options) ``` Currently `response` is just a hash containing the response `body`, `headers` and `status_code`. Check [here](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/server#response) to see how to interpret the responses. ## Device Group Messaging With [device group messaging](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/notifications), you can send a single message to multiple instance of an app running on devices belonging to a group. Typically, "group" refers a set of different devices that belong to a single user. However, a group could also represent a set of devices where the app instance functions in a highly correlated manner. To use this feature, you will first need an initialised `FCM` class. ### Generate a Notification Key for device group Then you will need a notification key which you can create for a particular `key_name` which needs to be uniquely named per app in case you have multiple apps for the same `project_id`. This ensures that notifications only go to the intended target app. The `create` method will do this and return the token `notification_key`, that represents the device group, in the response: ```ruby params = {key_name: "appUser-Chris", project_id: "my_project_id", registration_ids: ["4", "8", "15", "16", "23", "42"]} response = fcm.create(*params.values) ``` ### Send to Notification Key Now you can send a message to a particular `notification_key` via the `send_with_notification_key` method. This allows the server to send a single [data](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options#data_messages) payload or/and [notification](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options#notifications) payload to multiple app instances (typically on multiple devices) owned by a single user (instead of sending to some registration tokens). Note: the maximum number of members allowed for a `notification_key` is 20. ```ruby response = fcm.send_with_notification_key("notification_key", data: {score: "3x1"}, collapse_key: "updated_score") ``` ### Add/Remove Registration Tokens You can also add/remove registration Tokens to/from a particular `notification_key` of some `project_id`. For example: ```ruby params = { key_name: "appUser-Chris", project_id: "my_project_id", notification_key:"appUser-Chris-key", registration_ids:["7", "3"] } response = fcm.add(*params.values) params = { key_name: "appUser-Chris", project_id: "my_project_id", notification_key:"appUser-Chris-key", registration_ids:["8", "15"] } response = fcm.remove(*params.values) ``` ## Send Messages to Topics FCM [topic messaging](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/topic-messaging) allows your app server to send a message to multiple devices that have opted in to a particular topic. Based on the publish/subscribe model, topic messaging supports unlimited subscriptions per app. Sending to a topic is very similar to sending to an individual device or to a user group, in the sense that you can use the `fcm.send_with_notification_key()` method where the `notification_key` matches the regular expression `"/topics/[a-zA-Z0-9-_.~%]+"`: ```ruby response = fcm.send_with_notification_key("/topics/yourTopic", data: {message: "This is a FCM Topic Message!"}) ``` Or you can use the helper: ```ruby response = fcm.send_to_topic("yourTopic", data: {message: "This is a FCM Topic Message!"}) ``` ### Sending to Multiple Topics To send to combinations of multiple topics, the FCM [docs](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/send-message#send_messages_to_topics_2) require that you set a **condition** key (instead of the `to:` key) to a boolean condition that specifies the target topics. For example, to send messages to devices that subscribed to _TopicA_ and either _TopicB_ or _TopicC_: ``` 'TopicA' in topics && ('TopicB' in topics || 'TopicC' in topics) ``` FCM first evaluates any conditions in parentheses, and then evaluates the expression from left to right. In the above expression, a user subscribed to any single topic does not receive the message. Likewise, a user who does not subscribe to TopicA does not receive the message. These combinations do receive it: - TopicA and TopicB - TopicA and TopicC You can include up to five topics in your conditional expression, and parentheses are supported. Supported operators: `&&`, `||`, `!`. Note the usage for !: ``` !('TopicA' in topics) ``` With this expression, any app instances that are not subscribed to TopicA, including app instances that are not subscribed to any topic, receive the message. The `send_to_topic_condition` method within this library allows you to specicy a condition of multiple topics to which to send to the data payload. ```ruby response = fcm.send_to_topic_condition( "'TopicA' in topics && ('TopicB' in topics || 'TopicC' in topics)", data: { message: "This is an FCM Topic Message sent to a condition!" } ) ``` ## Subscribe the client app to a topic Given a registration token and a topic name, you can add the token to the topic using the [Google Instance ID server API](https://developers.google.com/instance-id/reference/server). ```ruby topic = "YourTopic" registration_id= "12" # a client registration tokens response = fcm.topic_subscription(topic, registration_id) ``` Or you can manage relationship maps for multiple app instances [Google Instance ID server API. Manage relationship](https://developers.google.com/instance-id/reference/server#manage_relationship_maps_for_multiple_app_instances) ```ruby topic = "YourTopic" registration_ids= ["4", "8", "15", "16", "23", "42"] # an array of one or more client registration tokens response = fcm.batch_topic_subscription(topic, registration_ids) # or unsubscription response = fcm.batch_topic_unsubscription(topic, registration_ids) ``` ## Mobile Clients You can find a guide to implement an Android Client app to receive notifications here: [Set up a FCM Client App on Android](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/client). The guide to set up an iOS app to get notifications is here: [Setting up a FCM Client App on iOS](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/ios/client). ## ChangeLog ### 0.0.7 - replace `httparty` with `faraday` ### 0.0.2 - Fixed group messaging url. - Added API to `recover_notification_key`. ### 0.0.1 - Initial version. ## MIT License - Copyright (c) 2016 Kashif Rasul and Shoaib Burq. See LICENSE.txt for details. ## Many thanks to all the contributors - [Contributors](https://github.com/spacialdb/fcm/contributors) ## Donations We accept tips through [Gratipay](https://gratipay.com/spacialdb/). [![Gratipay](https://img.shields.io/gratipay/spacialdb.svg)](https://www.gittip.com/spacialdb/)