Push Notifications Not Arriving - xamarin.android

Question

I am developing an android app using Xamarin and for push notifications I am using PushSharp.
I am having some trouble with receiving push notifications while the app is not running (after a reboot for example). Here is the Service code:
[BroadcastReceiver(Permission=GCMConstants.PERMISSION_GCM_INTENTS)]
[IntentFilter(new string[] { GCMConstants.INTENT_FROM_GCM_MESSAGE }, Categories = new string[] { "com.xxx" })]
[IntentFilter(new string[] { GCMConstants.INTENT_FROM_GCM_REGISTRATION_CALLBACK }, Categories = new string[] { "com.xxx" })]
[IntentFilter(new string[] { GCMConstants.INTENT_FROM_GCM_LIBRARY_RETRY }, Categories = new string[] { "com.xxx" })]
[IntentFilter(new[] { Android.Content.Intent.ActionBootCompleted })]
public class PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver : PushHandlerBroadcastReceiverBase<PushHandlerService>
{
//IMPORTANT: Change this to your own Sender ID!
//The SENDER_ID is your Google API Console App Project ID.
// Be sure to get the right Project ID from your Google APIs Console. It's not the named project ID that appears in the Overview,
// but instead the numeric project id in the url: eg: https://code.google.com/apis/console/?pli=1#project:785671162406:overview
// where 785671162406 is the project id, which is the SENDER_ID to use!
public static string[] SENDER_IDS = new string[] {"1234"};
public const string TAG = "PushSharp-GCM";
}
And here is the appManifest that is created:
<receiver android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND" android:name="xxx.PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
<category android:name="com.xxx" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION" />
<category android:name="com.xxx" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.gcm.intent.RETRY" />
<category android:name="com.xxx" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
<service android:name="xxx.PushHandlerService" />
My service code is very basic:
[Service] //Must use the service tag
public class PushHandlerService : PushHandlerServiceBase
{
public PushHandlerService () : base (PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.SENDER_IDS)
{
}
protected override void OnRegistered (Context context, string registrationId)
{
...
}
protected override void OnUnRegistered (Context context, string registrationId)
{
...
}
protected override void OnMessage (Context context, Intent intent)
{
...
}
protected override bool OnRecoverableError (Context context, string errorId)
{
...
}
protected override void OnError (Context context, string errorId)
{
...
}
void createNotification (string title, string desc, Intent intent)
{
...
}
}
Am I missing something? why is the service not started once the phone is rebooted. Should I be doing something in the broadcast receiver? Should I register to the push notifications in the service constructor (to handle the case where the app is not started yet)?

Answer 1

If your service does not start on reboot you can add a BroadcastReceiver to your project which starts it:
[BroadcastReceiver]
[IntentFilter(new[] { Intent.ActionBootCompleted })]
public class MyBootReceiver : BroadcastReceiver
{
public override void OnReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
{
MyNotificationService.RunIntentInService(context, intent);
SetResult(Result.Ok, null, null);
}
}
If you are using PushSharp you can probably get away with adding that filter to the PushHandlerBroadcastReceiverBase implementation.