Engineering

Migrate from Google Cloud Messaging to Firebase Cloud Messaging (Step by Step)

Allan Porras

24 Mar 2019 — 1 min read

Hi 4Geeks Nation!! If you are behind a product development, specifically a mobile app, you want to know this new tool built by Google to send messages (notifications) to your users on your product.

Google launched Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) as a new and more powerful tool to manage messaging to mobile devices.

Using FCM, you can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.

Look at the FCM schema… it’s beautiful and useful.

So, if you are using the old Google Cloud Messaging and planing to migrate to the new Firebase Cloud Messaging, this video can help you to put all factors on the table.

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