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Mulgard
Mulgard

Reputation: 10609

Android real time updates from server

I see that apps like facebook for example are getting push notifications in real time. When someone writes a message to me from a pc ill get the message to my android device as push notification just a second later even when my facebook app is not running.

Im wondering how it works because for my app i need a quite similar behaviour. There is also a messaging and an alert mechanism between server and client but i cant imagine how i could implement it so that i can get real time updates from the server to the client even when the app is not started.

Does someone know?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11497

Answers (1)

Blaze Tama
Blaze Tama

Reputation: 10948

Yes, use Sync Adapter with GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) :

http://developer.android.com/training/sync-adapters/index.html

Read the tutorial i provided, you will at least know what to use.

And check this SO question, it has good answers (especially the accepted one) :

Sync data between Android App and webserver

Upvotes: 6

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