Firebase Cloud Messaging

Explore Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) a cross-platform cloud messaging solution that lets you send messages at no cost

History

If you are working with Android long enough you could have known about Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), a mobile notification service. It was developed by Google that enables third-party application developers to send notification data or information from servers to applications and web free for charge

The GCM service was first announced in June 2012 as a successor to Google’s now-defunct Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, citing improvements to authentication and delivery, new API endpoints, and messaging parameters, and the removal of limitations on API send-rates and message sizes.

It has been superseded by Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). On April 10, 2018, Google deprecated GCM. The GCM server and client APIs were removed on May 29, 2019.

In this article, we’re going to learn what’s FCM, how we can integrate it into the app’s, and sending sample messages through FCM.

What is Firebase Cloud Messaging?

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a cross-platform cloud messaging solution that lets you…