android-c2dm

Any ideas on how to solve this permission denial error on retry registration event are greatly appreciated. Permission Denial: broadcasting Intent { act=com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RETRY flg=0x4 (has extras) } from com.my.package (pid=-1, uid=10041) requires com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND due to receiver com.my.package/com.google.android.c2dm.C2DMBroadcastReceiver manifest <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /> <permission android:name="com.my.package.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" android:protectionLevel="signature" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" /

I have GCM notification implementation. I know that the client application receives the notification whether it is in the foreground, background or killed state. What I would like to know is, how can I launch my application on notification received, when the application is in the killed state? jasdmystery In the message receiver, I do the following: final Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, YourActivity.class); notificationIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN); notificationIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER); Here replace YourActivity.class with the entry activity. This

Wanted to understand the fundamental reasons for push-notification like Google Cloud Messaging (earlier called Google Cloud to Device Messaging) being more battery friendly, for cloud <--> device communication ? In my view, the alternative technologies involve "polling" (over TCP/IP) while keeping the connection in CONNECTED state, using keep-alives. Or is there something better ? My limited undertanding of GCM is that, it also uses TCP/IP and keepalives, but the client never polls the server for status. Instead the server informs the client about an incoming message, and applications who

What I'm attempting to do is when receiving a c2dm message, start a service that asks for location for 'x' amount of time and then hands that location off to our server. The c2dm message starts the service correctly, and the GPS location turns on, but it never updates. It just sits there for the length of time I specify (currently 12 seconds) in the thread and does nothing. I'm using the exact same code somewhere else in my app (not as a service) and it works perfectly. What am I doing wrong? This starts the service when receiving a c2dm message. context.startService(new Intent(context,

What is the maximum number of characters that can be displayed in push notification in Android without the text being truncated? The documentation for iPhone states that the notification payload has to be under 256 bytes in total, but I was unable to find something similar for Android. Jorgesys Android The message size limit in Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is 4 kbytes. https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options#notification-messages-with-optional-data-payload https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/server#choose The message size limit in GCM is 4 kbytes.