Registration confusion Android GCM

Question

I am trying to migrate to GCM in Android, C2DM now being deprecated. The registration process described here is different from registration describ

Answer 1

They are actually the same thing. The second one encapsulates the first one in a static method and registers a broadcast receiver. You can attach the source to the gcm.jar and see for yourself. You can find source code in ~/android-sdks/extras/google/gcm/gcm-client/gcm-src.jar