Android: Silent Pushes + Prism Xamarin

[phillippschmedt]

Hi there,

my app is working with silent pushes, e.g. pushes that only include data and no messages.

If the app is terminated and a silent push is received, the android lifecycle will not start the MainActivity and therefore Xamarin and Prism will not be initialized. It will only trigger the OnCreate() of the Application.

I need to handle some updates from these silent pushes, but I can't access the prism container. See the following example code:

   [Application]  
    public class CustomApplication : Application  
    {  
        protected CustomApplication(System.IntPtr javaReference, JniHandleOwnership transfer) : base(javaReference, transfer)  
        {  
        }  
        public override void OnCreate()  
        {  
            NotificationHub.SetListener(new PushNotificationListener()
            {
                // Can't access prism / prism container here, because it does not exist yet. 
                PrismApplicationBase.Current.Container.Resolve<IMyService>().DoWork();
            });

            base.OnCreate();  
        }
    }  

Do you have any idea how I could deal with it?

Thanks a lot
Phillipp