Push notifications on Android: Google GCM vs. Amazon SNS?

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gcl1 picture gcl1 · Oct 5, 2012 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

My Android app needs simple push notifications to be informed about the appearance of new data on a server. Android provides Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) which would seem to fit.

However, devices running lower than Android 4.0.4 require a Google account to be present on the phone (per Google platform stats as of 10/1/2012, this is currently about 75% of Android phones). And it does not seem to be a good experience to be asking users to set up a Google account in the middle of an unrelated application activity.

Are there any suggestions for a more universal push mechanism that can be used on the Android platform? For example, what are the pros & cons of Amazon SNS? Any other candidates?

Answer

Asaf picture Asaf · Jan 13, 2014

This service also provide a generic interface to Android and iOS, and is much cheaper than parse: PushApps

A new wiki site is now available for PushApps - PushApps wiki

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