FCM setup for Android Push Notifications

2 min readJul 18, 2016

Firebase Cloud Messaging (earlier known as Google Cloud Messaging — GCM) is a mobile service developed by Google that enables third-party application developers to send push notifications to users. Below are the steps to create SERVER_KEY and SENDER_ID require to send push notification.

Create a Firebase Console Project

Enter a project name and click Create

Go to Project Settings from menu on the left

Click on Cloud Messaging and note down the SERVER_KEY and SENDER_ID highlighted in red box below

Boom! SENDER_ID will be used by mobile device to register device token to server and SERVER_KEY will be used by server to send push notification to mobile device.

See references for push notification server and client code on github.

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Some good references

aggarwalankush/push-notification-server

push-notification-server — Server code to send Push Notification to iOS or Android device

github.com

aggarwalankush/ionic2-push-base

ionic2-push-base — Ionic 2 Push Notifications Base App for iOS and Android