Don’t get me wrong, the Firebase Cloud Messaging docs are great. It’s all very extensive and the code’s everywhere. That’s EXACTLY why I’m going to make this post. Because I don’t understand a bloody bit of it mate. It takes me a full 4 hours just… Read More »Constructing POST HTTP Firebase Cloud Messages for dummies and YOU
Device Group Messaging allows you to send a single message to all devices that belong to a single user, otherwise known as a group. Quite frankly, a group can be the devices that belong to more than a single user, we are however limited to 20 devices… Read More »Device Group Messaging with Firebase Cloud Messaging
Topic Messaging is used for sending messages to people subscribed to well, topics. Perfectly suited for publicly available information like news, weather, and the sort. As such, we need to provide a way for users to subscribe before anything else. Subscribing to the Topic FirebaseMessaging.getInstance().subscribeToTopic(“news”)… Read More »Topic Messaging with Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android
We’re back to our Getting Started series in an aim to cover all the Firebase services on Android. As big as Cloud Messaging is, it leaves me to wonder why I didn’t cover this sooner. Cloud Messaging in a Nutshell Cloud messaging is your standard… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android
For a long time, Firebase A/B Testing was an extension of Remote Config that allowed you to test different app configurations with different audiences and see which one worked best for your app. A/B Testing can still do this, but it is no longer merely… Read More »Firebase A/B Testing is now its own thing and now supports Cloud Messaging Experiments
The easiest thing you can do with user segmentation, in my opinion, is Cloud Messaging. It’s a simple send everyone a message through their notifications. If you came here without checking the first part of the course and you don’t know what user segments are or… Read More »User Segmentation 2: Sending Targeted Cloud Messages with Firebase