I\'ve been using GCM service to send notification to my existing App, in PHP server, as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/11253231/3286489.
Now I\'m thinking of migrat
The answer to both is Yes.
For #1, my post that you linked pretty much answers it. So just to confirm, using the FCM endpoint to send towards your GCM users should be fine. It's still compatible.
For #2, no need to send separate payload for GCM users. As I said above, it is backwards compatible.