Google Cloud Messaging Android Quickstart app demonstrates registering an Android app for GCM and handling the receipt of a GCM message. InstanceID allows easy registration while GcmReceiver and GcmListenerService provide simple means of receiving and handling messages.

• Read more about Google Cloud Messaging

• Follow the quickstart guide to set up your project in Android Studio.
• Run the sample on your Android device.
• Update API_KEY in GcmSender.java, with API key from your project.
• Run the terminal command to send GCM message to your device.
• A notification containing the GCM message should be displayed on the device.

The GcmSender module in this project is emulating a server for the purposes of this sample, but it's not meant to serve as an example for a production app server. For information on GCM server implementaion see About GCM Connection Server

• Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-cloud-messaging

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Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and submitting a pull request through GitHub.

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