How to structure aps payload with EAS Notifications

[kourtc]

Hi!

I just tried this library and it is by far the smoothest implementation I've seen of Live Notifications with React Native. I was able to get up and running with a live notification in minutes. Thank you so much for building this. I tried two others libraries and the extra setup was much jankier. This is smooth!

I am trying to test starting and updating via remote notifications but I'm a bit confused on how to achieve it with EAS notifications because the fields don't map exactly to Apple's APNs.

Here is the ExpoPushMessage format:

export type ExpoPushMessage = {
    to: ExpoPushToken | ExpoPushToken[];
    data?: Record<string, unknown>;
    title?: string;
    subtitle?: string;
    body?: string;
    sound?: string | null | {
        critical?: boolean;
        name?: string | null;
        volume?: number;
    };
    ttl?: number;
    expiration?: number;
    priority?: 'default' | 'normal' | 'high';
    interruptionLevel?: 'active' | 'critical' | 'passive' | 'time-sensitive';
    badge?: number;
    channelId?: string;
    icon?: string;
    richContent?: {
        image?: string;
    };
    categoryId?: string;
    mutableContent?: boolean;
    _contentAvailable?: boolean;
};

Meanwhile the sample APNs is structured like this:

{
  "aps": {
    "event": "start",
    "content-state": {
      "title": "Live activity title!",
      "subtitle": "Live activity subtitle.",
      "timerEndDateInMilliseconds": 1754410997000,
      "imageName": "live_activity_image",
      "dynamicIslandImageName": "dynamic_island_image"
    },
    "timestamp": 1754491435000, // timestamp of when the push notification was sent
    "attributes-type": "LiveActivityAttributes",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Test",
      "backgroundColor": "001A72",
      "titleColor": "EBEBF0",
      "subtitleColor": "FFFFFF75",
      "progressViewTint": "38ACDD",
      "progressViewLabelColor": "FFFFFF",
      "deepLinkUrl": "/dashboard",
      "timerType": "digital"
    },
    "alert": {
      "title": "",
      "body": "",
      "sound": "default"
    }
  }
}

Edit: Would I have to communicate with APNs directly for live notifications?

Would really appreciate your help. Thank you!

[kourtc]

Solved!

Need to use APN directly. For my server I used @parse/node-apn