firebase
Add API for checking subscription status of a given topic
It is currently not possible to check whether a user is subscribed to a topic. This would be really nice to have in order to be able to show current state of subscription, for instance with a switch button.
The only current solutions seems to be keeping a state localy (with the risk of it being out of sync) or checking via our own server (which seems counter-intuitive since that's the only Firebase-related thing that would be in the server).
The implementation could just be void isSubscribed(String topic) or List<String> subscribedTopics() depending on what i best for the SDK - both variants can solve the specific issue.
There is a similar feature request in the iOS SDK: firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#225
I couldn't figure out how to label this issue, so I've labeled it for a human to triage. Hang tight.
Currently we support fetching topic subscriptions for a instance via our server side API: https://developers.google.com/instance-id/reference/server#get_information_about_app_instances
Regarding making this accessible client side via SDK - thanks for that feature request. We will take that into consideration.
Also, if you would like, you can add this as a feature request via fireabse uservoices here: https://firebase.uservoice.com/forums/948424-general?category_id=464872
