Push Notifications in Android Platform

Question

I am looking to write an app that receives pushed alerts from a server. I found a couple of methods to do this.

1. SMS - Intercept the incoming SMS and initiate

Answer 1

You can use Xtify (http://developer.xtify.com) - they have a push notifications webservice that works with their SDK. it's free and so far, it's worked really well for me.