What is the Character Limit for Message text in Firebase console based notification?

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Sarath Kumar picture Sarath Kumar · Jul 25, 2016 · Viewed 18k times · Source

i'm using Firebase console to send a notification to my phone, the notification is successfully delivered to my phone, but i want to know, What is the Character Limit for Message text in Firebase console based notification?

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Answer

Christlin Panneer picture Christlin Panneer · Jul 25, 2016

Firebase uses GCM for message transport. Based on the following references

  1. GCM Size Limit = 2KB (here)
  2. From FIrebase documentation size limit = 4KB (here)

Anyway if we are considering a 2KB payload size. it will come around 2000 characters.

remember to keep the message size low as much as possible.

UPDATE

The console will allow maximum of 1000 characters

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