Release Status

[netbull]

With all this noise in the previous thread the main question still stays without an answer:

Are there any news about the release date /alpha, beta, pre/ ?

[Ehesp]

Our goals are to have something in place by the end of the year, and we'd reach out to users on the Google Form to see if they'd be interested in giving the library a go with Alpha.

What that something is:

• We'd be releasing an Android only version to start with.
• iOS will be released afterwards.
• The public API surface area may change slightly once iOS lands. We're not there yet with iOS so it may cause some bits to change.
• Testing won't be fully complete. We've got the core aspects nailed down, however we're aiming to have automated/manual tests running across a variety of devices/APIs.
• Alpha is about helping us find bugs/problems; we want to get feedback on real life app integration, so we'll be super keen on getting users feedback.
• Documentation will be work in progress. We have a massive documentation plan, and some of it is work in progress. This will be a primary focus once it's in the wild though.

[defcon8]

My company is interested in this module too. Please give me shout out when it is available.

[zacharyweidenbach]

Our goals are to have something in place by the end of the year, and we'd reach out to users on the Google Form to see if they'd be interested in giving the library a go with Alpha.

Did you mean by end of 2019 or end of 2020?

[Ehesp]

:D 2019

We're super close to putting something in alpha state, just doing some testing/cleanup at the moment.

[netbull]

@Ehesp looking forward to see what's cooking :)

[Ehesp]

Hey all!

Just a heads up that we're now in the final stages of an alpha release (see above), finishing/tidying up the Android code, documentation & website.

We'll be reaching out soon (target end of the week), stay tuned.

[emaxedon]

Hey, super side note but I think the website should be updated => https://invertase.io/oss/react-native-firebase/releases/v6.0.0#where-is-the-notifications-library?

I was under the impression their would be a notifications module which I believe is definitely no longer the case.

[Salakar]

Hey all,

We've just published the documentation which we've been working on alongside the library, this should give you an idea of how to use the APIs and which features we're supporting. We're currently working on getting the SDK in a publishable state and we'll update soon once its live.

Documentation: https://notifee.app/react-native/docs/overview

We'd love some feedback on the documentation approach that we've taken with Notifee, so please let us know if you have any thoughts.

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As a side note, you may notice that we've now changed the pricing model so that a single purchase now includes life time access to all updates now without the need for any further purchases. The pricing has remained the same. Hopefully this alleviates some concerns people had about paying for updates.

[Salakar]

Hey again all 👋

The alpha package with Android support is published on NPM 🎉 , however we're still testing a few things and going through docs & types and making sure everything is working well before we open up the account/license management pages, but... you're welcome to try it out in the meantime as a license is not required in development.

You'll also notice that we've open sourced the React Native module code on this repo - we still love open-source so we'll continue trying to open source as much as we can, however; the core internals of Notifee will remain closed source.

We'll update with more info in due course but until then, happy early testing!

[Salakar]

Hey again everyone 👋

Website is now fully live, purchasing, account management, licensing etc is now available.

Would love for a few people to test it out etc and as a thanks for doing that and for participating in this issue I've created a coupon code you can use at checkout for 60% off, for the next 5 people; RNNISSUE1

If you're a core contributor to any of our Open Source products, or have a fully Open Source app, or are a non-profit organisation (e.g. charity) then please get in touch here and we'll be happy to grant you a free license.

iOS is coming along well and we hope to have a release out by the end of the month that includes iOS.

[lukeggchapman]

Thanks! I purchased with anticipation of using in a future project. Everything went smoothly, with only 1 small piece of feedback, the text colour when checking out is very dark.