159135253: Trigger FirebaseInAppMessagingClickListener. messageClicked when action is empty

[KonradSzewczuk]

What feature would you like to see?

Invoke FirebaseInAppMessagingClickListener.messageClicked for use case when you don't want to trigger browser intent and you are interested only to handle other data (such as key-value map defined in the campaign)

As a user, I don't want to trigger any URL specific browser intent when i click my In App Message popup. I want to trigger below code without any side effects:

inAppMessaging.addClickListener { inAppMessage, action ->
      // invoke only code inside
          val data = inAppMessage.data // I am only interested in that data, don't want to trigger any browser intent
      }

Unfortunately, this listener is not being invoked when the defined action is empty. You must define the action with proper URL to be able to trigger this listener when popup is clicked.

Can we trigger such listener always when the popup is being clicked, even when the defined action for campaign is empty?

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[JasonAHeron]

Hey @KonradSzewczuk, this is an interesting feature request. Right now when a user does not provide a valid click action we treat clicks as dismiss.

So what you're imagining is if an action is not set then when a FIAM is clicked we call the developer registered callback for click before dismissing it?

[ashwinraghav]

Thanks for the feature request.
If you are looking for programmatic invocation of remote functions defined in your app, consider using FirebaseMessaging.
You could send a message to your app from your app's backend or from the Notifications tab in the Firebase console.
Upon receiving the message, your app can parse it and invoke any functions that you would like.

[KonradSzewczuk]

@JasonAHeron I can confirm that your description is something that I am looking for.

In addition, my use case is to trigger an InAppMessaging popup and after click on it change the Fragment in my activity without any current activity refresh. To achieve that I think I must not trigger any deeplink related browser intent. The easiest way would be to handle such scenario in the FirebaseInAppMessagingClickListener. messageClicked as I proposed (without any side effects)
I don't see any possible reason to use FirebaseMessaging in that case as @ashwinraghav proposed.

@ashwinraghav @JasonAHeron Can we reopen this feature request?

[ashwinraghav]

Hey @KonradSzewczuk,
Closed the ticket unintentionally. Sry bout that. Also, I may have misunderstood what you are reporting.
Thanks for clarifying.
@JasonAHeron seems like a change that is non breaking IMO. Seems safe to have this roll out just as a minor version ? Also worth checking what the behavior on iOS is.

[PiotrPrus]

The feature that we are talking about is a dismissal event. I have checked the documentation for iOS and in the CardActionFiamDisplay there is a messageDismissed listener: https://firebase.google.com/docs/in-app-messaging/modify-message-behavior?platform=ios#implement_a_displaydelegate_to_handle_card_interactions
As far I as understand, the same functionality on android would resolve the issue. Why these two even do not share the same functionalities? :(