Android GCM unicode charcters are not received

Question

This is my server side code or android side code. This code is working fine only for English messages. If I use Unicode charters like use Arabic language then it shows nothi

Answer 1

André Oriani has the general idea for the fix. Even though the message is placed in the body of the request, it still needs to url encoded.

string postData = string.Format("registration_id={0}&data.payload={1}&collapse_key={2}", id, msg, collaspeKey);

should be replaced with

string postData = string.Format("registration_id={0}&data.payload={1}&collapse_key={2}", id, HttpUtility.UrlEncode(msg), HttpUtility.UrlEncode(collaspeKey));

You will need to add a reference to System.Web in order to use HttpUtility. See URL Encoding using C# for more information.

Answer 2

Have you considered using base64 to encode the string sent through GCM? This way you would remove all encoding problems.

Answer 3

Here's what solved it for me in Java:

On the server side:

encodedMessage = URLEncoder.encode(message, "UTF-8");

In the app:

decodedMessage = URLDecoder.decode(message, "UTF-8");