Introducing Firebase Cloud Messaging
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as a quick official overview of how FCM push notifications work when answering questions about delivery, topics and sending messages.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2017 to 2021.
What it is
A under-one-minute promo from the Firebase channel introducing Firebase Cloud Messaging, a free service for sending messages to users' apps across Android, iOS and web. It is a brief product overview with no technical walkthrough.
What people said
Recommends Sanzio Angeli · 2021-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Is it possible to continuously scrape data using Firebase?”
When your app is terminated (not running in the background) you will also be severely limited with what the app can do. [LINK] A scheduled firebase function or cron job would be the most reliable way to accomplish this. Also watch this video and playlist it shows how push notifications commonly work with firebase: [this video]
Cites Jack Hughes · 2017-11 · Stack Overflow · on “How to send push notifications FROM an android app with Firebase?”
Option 1 - Send messages directly from Firebase If you are trying to send out messages to all users of your Android app using Firebase, you should look at the documentation on how to "Send Messages with the Firebase Console" [LINK] . Option 2 - Send messages from the app to a service; then to Firebase If you are trying to send a message from your Android app to Firebase and then from firebase to other users, you may be missing a key component of your stack/infrastructure, a web service. The service acts as a middle man between Firebase Cloud Messaging and your app, effectively making the decisions on how to handle messages from the app, and how to send commands to firebase, including who (wh
Cites Gastón Saillén · 2019-05 · Stack Overflow · on “How much time FCM takes to deliver push notification to a topic of large base”
The messages are enqueue and they will be deliver user by user from Firebase cloud messaging server, you can know the status of those messages at your Firebase Notifications console. [LINK] This video ensures that 95% of your messages will deliver with an average time of 250ms [this video] From this [LINK] documentation Maximum payload for both message types is 4KB, except when sending messages from the Firebase console, which enforces a 1024 character limit. Another important thing you can find at this [LINK] documentation FCM does not guarantee the order of delivery. Throttling and scaling [LINK] Our goal is to always deliver every message sent via FCM. However, delivering every message sometim