Android gcm push notifications accidentally open app

We have a strange bug in our application. Our app is designed to receive GCM push notifications and open the app for a specific action based on the notification payload when the notification is clicked. This all works great, except that on rare occasions (since I've activated 500+ push notifications and only saw it happening twice), our app will open seemingly without user intervention. It seems like something is triggering a notification in the notification bar. Has anyone experienced something similar or have any idea what might be causing this? I searched quite a bit on Google and StackOverflow but I only found one question about similar behavior with no answers, which can be seen herehttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/19112479/push-notification-is-opening-app-directly

I have included BroadcastReceiver, IntentService and intent filters from the manifest below.

BroadcastReceiver:

public class GcmBroadcastReceiver extends WakefulBroadcastReceiver {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        ComponentName comp = new ComponentName(context.getPackageName(), GCMIntentService.class.getName());
        startWakefulService(context, intent.setComponent(comp));
        setResultCode(Activity.RESULT_OK);
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

IntentService:

public class GCMIntentService extends IntentService {
    private static final int NOTIFICATION_ID = 100;

    public GCMIntentService() {
        super("GcmIntentService");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
        Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();

        if (!extras.isEmpty()) {            
            GoogleCloudMessaging gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(this);

            if (GoogleCloudMessaging.MESSAGE_TYPE_MESSAGE.equals(gcm.getMessageType(intent)))
                sendNotification(extras.getString(GlooIntents.GLOO_URL), extras.getString(GlooIntents.ALERT));
        }

        GcmBroadcastReceiver.completeWakefulIntent(intent);
    }

    private void sendNotification(String url, String message) {
        long when = System.currentTimeMillis();

        Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, SplashActivity.class);
        notificationIntent.putExtra("nextPath", url);
        notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);

        builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_home);
        builder.setLargeIcon(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_home));
        builder.setWhen(when);

        builder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
        builder.setContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name_replace_me));
        builder.setContentText(message);
        builder.setAutoCancel(true);

        NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        notificationManager.cancel(NOTIFICATION_ID);
        notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.getNotification());
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

manifesto

<activity
    android:name=".GroupActivity"
    android:label="@string/group"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" >
    <intent-filter>
        <data
            android:host="app"
            android:pathPattern="/groups/.*"
            android:scheme="gloo" />

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>