How to Add Push Notifications to Your Unity Mobile Game - Firebase Cloud Messaging Tutorial

In this tutorial video, I explain how to setup push notifications for your mobile Unity game. This setup will work for both iOS and Android devices. This will likely be the first of a series of tutorial videos as there is a whole lot to cover on this topic. For today, we will be setting up a basic Unity project that can be ran on a mobile device then configuring a Firebase project to send a notification to that device. Enjoy!

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[TurboMakesGames]

If you can't get it to work on Android after following the video, the first thing that I would check is to make sure your "Build System" is set to "Gradle." This is done in the build settings and you can see it in my video at 13:34. Also be sure that "Google Play Services" are updated to the latest version on your phone.

[ianmcnamara]

Brilliant tutorial. Thank you so much. I had everything but the test console section done and my head was wrecked I thought I was lost. You've made my day.

[albertoneto]

Very nice and straightforward tutorial. Managed to get it working just fine on 2021! A little sidenote for people who are new to mobile development, but make sure your whole package name in the player android settings are set to lowercase. My project at first was generating a token but no notifications and turns out it was because there was a single uppercase letter at the package name.

[BillehBawb]

thank you very much, got it working pretty quickly by following this tutorial and the updated official firebase one.

[sspgames-studio]

Thank you very much, great detailed tutorial it works for me!!!

[JJDSG]

Hello if you read this then please reply, I am Very Happy To See This Tutorial And it helped me a lot, I managed To Implement The Push Notifications in my unity game, But Now The Problem Is that The Notifications only gets received when the app is in background, I mean if I kill the app by like swiping away from recent apps then I don't receive the notifications, Notification only comes when I open the app and press the home button to put it in background. Please help me I want user to receive the notifications even if they kill the app, can you help me on that.

I want to send Notification with The KEY And Value using custom data from firebase like you did in the third video of this series to change scenes using Push notification or (FCM), But I want the user to receive the notification even if the app gets killed .

[christianalejandroflores]

thanks for this video!, for the moment i tried in android

[FUNLIVEE]

hello, thank you very much for your tutorial! Everything works fine with me, but I still have a question for you. When I restart my phone, its cache is cleared and can no longer receive notifications from Firebase. It causes me to restart my application to be able to receive these messages again. Is there a way to keep this cache even after restarting the phone? Thank you and good day ;)

[diegovillalobos]

Hi! I am receaving the token and the message ( i debugged it using log viewer) but my app is not showing the notification. (testing on android) What do you think can be the trouble?

[wtfloser]

This was such a good video. Thanks for making this!

[noobofnoob]

whenever i need to work with fcm and unity
this is my goto playlist

[stefanotkg]

Hi, very good tutorial. So if I properly understood, using Firebase it is possible to send notifications whenever the developer wants to, while other notification system assets in Unity store provide notifications only on fixed situations or timing inside game progress. I have a question: how is it possible to create notifications with large images, rather than small icons?

[sreejithkakkat]

Great video. Worked for me when i created a fresh new project. But when i tried to import the package to an existing game project, then a lot of errors are coming. Especially from TMPro and UI. Please send a solution for this.

[thenightguy]

Does anyone know how to change the icon of the notification ??? I really need this

[wadelkane]

Hi bro please you is it possible to receive notification although the game is closed?

[manuelgurbanov]

Hi! Is there any chance that I can send everyuser a notification everyday at one hour? Thanks

[alexabrushwood]

Hi can you please send me firebase messaging.unity package.because it's complete unity sdk is about 2.5gb it is so big I can't download it for some reason.please upload firebase messaging.unity package file it on Google drive so I can download it.please

[NanoDice]

When it says "After you add the initialization code, run your app to send verification to the Firebase console that you've successfully installed Firebase" on the iOS setup, does it mean you have to build the app? Or run it in the editor? What exactly do I have to do?

[harshpatel]

Can we shown notification on live app like whatsapp?

[codelotl]

Is it possible to create in-app posts like for a social media and it will sync for everyone that uses the app?