How To Merge Firebase Cloud Messaging In The Android-Based Apps?

Firebase is a free mobile and web development platform designed and developed by the tech giant Google. It consists of different tools and an infrastructure created in such a manner that developers can quickly build high quality apps without any fuss. With this tool, app owners can not only boost the growth of their app but can also pump out more revenues.

The Google's Firebase software is made of several complementary features that help developers during the Android development process. The first product made using this tech was the real-time database which provides an API that allows developers to store and sync data across multiple clients. Over time, it has expanded its product line to become a full suite for app development.

In this blog, you will read about the Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) which acts as an alternative of the Google Cloud Messaging. FCM is an API that delivers the message in the form of push notifications and the best thing is it doesn't depend on the platform for the development purpose. By using FCM, developers can quickly inform users about the latest updates and new data sync.

The developer can send an instant message of up to 4KB in size using FCM. With this blog, you will learn how a Mobile development company adds push notifications to a single Android device by using FCM.

How to Add FCM in your App:

Before creating an app, first, you need to add FCM in the application. For this, you need to get a configuration file. There are few steps to initiate this process. Let's see how you can quickly develop an app for push notifications.

• Create an Application FCMExampleAndroid in Android Studio.
• After successfully creating this application open this link https://console.firebase.google.com/.
• Open the official site and Sign in successfully.
• After Sign in you have to Create New Project.
• Here, you will be giving the same name to the project and select a country and then click on Create project.
• Then the next screen will appear, choose the second option i.e. Add Firebase to your Android app.
• After this, you have to enter all the app details like package name of your project. Simply copy your package name from manifest file and paste it here.
• Click on Add App. It will download the google services.JSON file. This is the configuration file of your app.
• Copy this downloaded file into our app module root directory.
• The go to the console and press continue then add the dependencies in your project and app-module build.gradle file.

After carefully following all these steps you will be able to add Firebase Cloud Messaging in your app.

Conclusion

In this blog, you will come across brief information about the FCM. In case you don't have much technical know how then it will be good to hire services of an experienced professional.