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Creating a Push notification message

Updated over a week ago

Overview

You can send push notification messages to users on Android devices using Intempt.

📘 Before You Start

To send push notifications, ensure the following prerequisites are completed:

  • You have an Android application set up with an Intempt source.

  • You've connected the app to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) as your notification broker.

  • You've integrated the Intempt Android SDK into your app.

  • Device tokens are stored as a user attribute — this is automatically handled when you create the Android source and notification destination.

📘 Need help connecting your Android app to Intempt? Refer to our Android source guide for step-by-step instructions.

Steps to start sending push notifications

To start sending push notifications, follow these steps:

  1. Create an Android source in the Sources section.

  2. Integrate the Android SDK into your mobile application.

  3. Set up Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to handle message delivery.

  4. Create a push notification destination linked to your Android source.

  5. Create a notification message template using the Push Notification editor.

  6. Build a Journey and add a "Send message" step that uses your push message template.

Creating Push notification messages

To create a new Push notification message template, you should open the Journeys section -> Messages tab, click on "Create message", and choose "Push notification" type

Push notification message editor

The information below provides an overview of each section in the Push notification message editor.

  1. Users/accounts. Switch between user and account levels. Depending on your selection, you can select user or account attributes in the dropdown below.

  2. Filter by. Filter users or accounts based on a selected attribute's value, e.g., location, email, etc.

  3. Results. Users or accounts that match the specified filter criteria will be displayed under the "Results" dropdown. Select the user or account for the "Attributes" section to appear.

  4. Attributes. A list of all attributes for a selected user or account. Selecting the blue plus icon will insert the variable into the message body.

  5. Message title. Enter the title text for your notification. This will appear in bold on the user’s device.

  6. Message body. Write the main message content. Keep it brief and actionable.

  7. Redirect link. Provide a URL or app deep link. This is opened when the user taps the notification.

  8. Message image. Optionally include an image URL. This will be displayed in supported notification formats.

  9. Add a variable. This opens a modal to add the user's or account variable (like the first name). This is the same action as the plus icon under the "Attributes" section, but does not require filtering, presenting all variables in a single list.

  10. Notification preview. This displays how the end user's device will render the notification. Note that if no user is selected in the "Sample data" section, you will only see variables instead of actual user values.

📘 Good to know

Ensure that before clicking on the icon, you select a specific place in the message where the variable should be inserted.

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