Disabling Automatic Notification Display in Background/Quit State for Better Handling of Deep Links

[ZiadEmadZaki]

Hi,

I am working on implementing notifications in our React Native project using Firebase and Expo. We have encountered a challenge with notifications when the app is in a background or quit state.

Issue:
When a notification is received while the app is in the background or quit state, it is automatically displayed. This behavior is problematic for our use case because we include a URL (a deep link) in the notification that is supposed to route the app to a specific screen when the notification is pressed. We can read the notification data using the hooks provided by the Expo-notifications package, specifically the useLastNotificationResponse hook.

Problem:
The useLastNotificationResponse hook does not work with notifications automatically displayed by React Native Firebase. However, if we add a background handler using the messaging().setBackgroundMessageHandler function, it works as expected.

Finding a solution:
To address this issue, I'm trying to disable the automatic display of notifications when the app is in the background or quit state. Instead, so that I can handle the notifications manually using the setBackgroundMessageHandler function.

Thank you for your time and consideration.