Best Android push notification (C2DM) tutorials

Here are the best tutorials (in my opinion) that I have found on the Internet about C2DM service for sending push notifications to Android device. There are three groups of them, each corresponds to one actor in the architecture. Details about Push notifications you can find in my previous post here. 1. Android application part tutorials … Continue reading Best Android push notification (C2DM) tutorials

Android push notification tutorial: C2DM 3rd party Application server implementation

Here is how to implement C2DM server part in java for Google C2DM service using apache http-client and http-impl apache libs for REST webservice calls: Server Authentication in C2DM Service In order to send message to C2DM Server, first you have to authenticate your server with valid google account. Here is how to do it. Params: … Continue reading Android push notification tutorial: C2DM 3rd party Application server implementation

Android push notifications with Google C2DM

Push notification is message sent by server logic to specific android device. Message can be caught by specified application and handled in any way. For example some notification can be shown on the android status bar. Received message can also be handled by Application in the way which user will not even see. Application will … Continue reading Android push notifications with Google C2DM