How to send Android push notifications via GCM on C# .Net

Question

I\'m new to all Android GCM push notifications and I have read stack posts but couldn\'t get a straight answer.I have also read Create push notification in android to get a

Answer 1

This never worked for me and it is hard to debug plus passing a list of registration token is not clear -would expect passing a string array instead of comma separated string - , the fact that this is very simple post request i created my own class with a method that return the server response, and it works very well:

Usage

       //Registration Token 
        string[] registrationIds ={"diks4vp5......","erPjEb9....."};

        AndroidGcmPushNotification gcmPushNotification = new 
        AndroidGcmPushNotification(
            "API KEY", registrationIds, "Hello World"
            );
        gcmPushNotification.SendGcmNotification();

Class

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;


public class AndroidGcmPushNotification
{
private readonly string _apiAccessKey;
private readonly string[] _registrationIds;
private readonly string _message;
private readonly string _title;
private readonly string _subtitle;
private readonly string _tickerText;
private readonly bool _vibrate;
private readonly bool _sound;

public AndroidGcmPushNotification(string apiAccessKey, string[] registrationIds, string message, string title = "",
    string subtitle = "", string tickerText = "", bool vibrate = true, bool sound = true )
{
    _apiAccessKey = apiAccessKey;
    _registrationIds = registrationIds;
    _message = message;
    _title = title;
    _subtitle = subtitle;
    _tickerText = tickerText;
    _vibrate = vibrate;
    _sound = sound;
}

public string SendGcmNotification()
{

    //MESSAGE DATA
    GcmPostData data = new GcmPostData()
    {
        message = _message,
        title = _title,
        subtitle = _subtitle,
        tickerText = _tickerText,
        vibrate = _vibrate,
        sound = _sound
    };

    //MESSAGE FIELDS 
    GcmPostFields fields = new GcmPostFields();
    fields.registration_ids = _registrationIds;
    fields.data = data;

    //SERIALIZE TO JSON 
    JavaScriptSerializer jsonEncode = new JavaScriptSerializer();

    //CONTENTS
    byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonEncode.Serialize(fields));

    //REQUEST
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send");
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.KeepAlive = false;
    request.ContentType = "application/json";
    request.Headers.Add($"Authorization: key={_apiAccessKey}");
    request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;

    Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
    dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
    dataStream.Close();


    //SEND REQUEST
    try
    {
        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
        {
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
            string responseLine = reader.ReadToEnd();
            reader.Close();

            return responseLine;
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        return e.Message;
    }

}
private class GcmPostFields
{
    public string[] registration_ids { get; set; }
    public GcmPostData data { get; set; }

}
private class GcmPostData
{
    public string message { get; set; }
    public string title { get; set; }
    public string subtitle { get; set; }
    public string tickerText { get; set; }
    public bool vibrate { get; set; }
    public bool sound { get; set; }
}

}