GCM send image instead of message

Question

I\'m an Android newbie, and I\'m using Google GCM to send a plain text message. Is it possible to send an image file as stream or by some other method?

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Answer 1

I wrote two blogs posts on how to do this:

Tutorial: Using AirBop to Send Images in the Message Payload which shows you how to do it by base64 encoding the image.

Tutorial: Using AirBop to Push Images for BigPictureStyle Notifications which shows you how to push image urls and then download the image.

Both tutorials use AirBop as the Application server, but the client code is separate from that and can be used generically.