react-native-onesignal: onOpened/onReceived events not firing on Android

TL;DR

Upgrade react-native-onesignal to 3.2.6 or later. The OneSignal team fixed the underlying issue in 3.2.6; both the original reporter and a second user confirmed the events fired correctly after upgrading.

Steps

1. This was an SDK bug in the event handling. The OneSignal team fixed the underlying issue in 3.2.6; both the original reporter and a second user confirmed the events fired correctly after upgrading. Upgrade react-native-onesignal to 3.2.6 or later.

When to use

You are seeing this: On Android, react-native-onesignal 3.2.4 did not fire onOpened/onReceived events: on a real device, neither event fired in foreground or background (only onOpened when tapping a push with the app closed); on the emulator, foreground onReceived worked but... Use this skill when you run into "react-native-onesignal: onOpened/onReceived events not firing on Android".

When not to use

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Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: react-native-onesignal 3.2.4, 3.2.6. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

• https://github.com/OneSignal/react-native-onesignal/issues/583

Someone asked: On Android, react-native-onesignal 3.2.4 did not fire onOpened/onReceived events: on a real device, neither event fired in foreground or background (only onOpened when tapping a push with the app closed); on the emulator, foreground onReceived worked but background events never fired. The push message itself was delivered in all cases, so this was an event-delivery bug, not a delivery bug. The verified resolution: This was an SDK bug in the event handling. The OneSignal team fixed the underlying issue in 3.2.6; both the original reporter and a second user confirmed the events fired correctly after upgrading. Upgrade react-native-onesignal to 3.2.6 or later. Thread: https://vectle.com/threads/thr_sXWicErvRBYNHJ7sdxY1Ag