Introduction to google cloud messaging in android
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Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) allows developers to send data from servers to Android apps without needing the app to be running. It handles queuing messages and delivery to devices. The key benefits are ease of use, no sign-up forms, battery efficiency, and rich APIs. Implementing GCM involves adding required libraries, modifying the app manifest, writing an IntentService to handle messages, adding a broadcast receiver, and registering from the main activity. The server sends messages to GCM servers which queue and store messages, then delivering them to devices when online.
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Introduction to google cloud messaging in android
- 1. Introduction to Android Google Cloud Messaging Amrit Sanjeev Organizer – Bangalore Android User Group
- 2. About me • Android hacker. • Organizer, Bangalore Android User Group ( www.blrdroid.org ) • Research Engineer at Philips R&D
- 3. Bangalore Android User Group ( www.BlrDroid.org) • Largest open Android developer community in the country and second largest in the world. • Over 2500 members • 19 meetups • 3 hackathons • Active participation in events like Droidcon, Global Android Developer hackathon etc
- 4. What we will be discussing today. Why do we How it is What is implemented ? GCM? need GCM? Google Cloud Messaging
- 5. What is GCM? Google Cloud Messaging
- 6. GCM definition GCM stands for Google Cloud Messaging . It is a free service that allows developers to send data from third party servers to their applications running on android devices Handles queuing of messages and delivery to the target application running on the target device. Intended use is not to send huge amount of data to the client device
- 7. Things to keep in mind Application on the android device DOES NOT need to be running to receive messages. Requires user to set up a Google account on the device. It is purely a routing component There is no guaranteed delivery of messages to the device .
- 8. Focus of GCM GCM stats are Ease of use. No available through No quotas. sign-up forms. the Android Developer Console. Rich set of new Battery efficiency. APIs
- 9. Difference between GCM and C2DM Simple API Key from Google APIs console page. Sender id is the project id rather than email address Supports data in JSON format and plain text
- 10. Difference between GCM and C2DM Multicast message support Multiple senders Messages have time to live ( 0 ~ 4 weeks ) eg. Expiring invitations Payload up to 4kb
- 11. Why do we need GCM? The why part
- 12. The need to use GCM Client server architecture is the most common architecture . Most application do all the heavy lifting and processing at the servers and then use the processed data within the applications . Scalability & extensibility More computing power
- 13. The need to use GCM Background process polling server for information at regular intervals is a bad design Battery performance System resource usage ( memory , CPU ) Complicated coding Application does not need to be running in the background for receiving data messages. Lower cost and better tracking than SMS.
- 14. The need to use GCM Less coding required Not need to worry about queuing of messages Differed delivery Simpler application flow
- 15. The need to use GCM In a nutshell it makes application design much more simple, improves battery performance and makes better use of system resources .
- 16. How it is implemented? The internals
- 17. Major components Your application server GCM servers Mobile device
- 18. Typical sequence of events The application server sends a message to GCM servers. Google queues The Android and stores the application message in case processes the the device is message offline. On the device, the system When the device broadcasts the is online, Google message to the sends the specified Android. message to the This wakes the device. Android application up.
- 19. Minimum requirements ( device side ) Android 2.2 + Android market place should be installed Emulator with Google APIs Internet connection Google account ( device version < 4.0.4 ) .
- 20. Minimum requirements ( server side ) HTTPS application server that should be Able to communicate with your client. Able to fire off HTTP requests to the GCM server. Able to handle requests and queue data as needed. For example, it should be able to perform exponential back off. Able to store the user device registration id .
- 21. Android application Copy the Add a Wire it up required broadcast in your libs receiver activity Make Add an changes Intent to the service manifest
- 22. Alternate Infrastructures • Alternative to GCM is required under following conditions Limited connectivity to internet services Security requirement Guaranteed delivery SLAs on delivery No quota limits • Downsides Complicated design Battery consumption on device is higher.
- 23. Thank you In case you have more queries please feel free to contact Amrit.sanjeev@gmail.com (+91 97407 44557 ) @amsanjeev
- 24. BACKUP SLIDES
- 25. Add required libs Install Google Cloud Messaging for android using SDK manager. Copy gcm.jar from YOUR_SDK_ROOT/extras/google/gcm-client/dist to libs in your project folder
- 26. Changes to Manifest file Add <use-sdk … > Declare & use a custom permission Add additional permissions internet get_accounts wake_lock
- 27. Write Intentservice subclass of com.google.android.gcm.GCMBaseIntentService must contain a public constructor, Generally named my_app_package.GCMIntentService Override the following functions with appropriate logic onRegistered onUnRegistered onMessage onError onRecoverableError
- 28. Add boardcast receiver add a broadcast receiver with the custom permissions and following actions <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" /> <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION" /> Should be defined in the manifest and not programmatically
- 29. Finally the activity CheckDevice () CheckManifest() getRegistrationId() Register()
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