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user867662
user867662

Reputation: 1171

is gmail account mandatory for Google cloud messaging

We are going to use Google Cloud Messaging service in one of our enterprise mobile application. The target device may be BYOD/company owned devices. Is it mandatory for devices to register/log in to Google account (using somaaddress at G mail dot com) for using the GCM push notification services?

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Eran
Eran

Reputation: 393781

Based on the official docs, a Google account is required for GCM to work only for pre-3.0 devices :

It uses an existing connection for Google services. For pre-3.0 devices, this requires users to set up their Google account on their mobile devices. A Google account is not a requirement on devices running Android 4.0.4 or higher.

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That said, from a discussion on the android-gcm group, one of the GCM developers at Google implied that if you register to GCM using the new Google Play Services library, you don't need a Google account even for pre-3.0 devices (Froyo and Gingerbread) :

Froyo and Gingerbread registration is implemented in GoogleServicesFramework, using the Google account for registration. This has resulted in a lot of auth errors for people where the account was not in a good state.

Starting with ICS, GCM doesn't depend or uses the Google account - you can use it before you add an account or without any accounts.

The "Play Services" update is implementing the new scheme on all devices - but it seems a small number of devices have problems with this, we're investigating - but the numbers are far lower than those with the old scheme.

Upvotes: 2

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