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Abdolrahman Farshgar
Abdolrahman Farshgar

Reputation: 339

Implementing status update for android

I am developing an android application that is connected to a restful API.

There is a challenging situation that the user of the app changes a setting on the website that should be changed on the android app too...

but I don't know how to notify the android app about the recent change made on the server.

can you help me solve this problem? I was thinking about a push notification. is it a good practice to do so?

thank you for your time...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 105

Answers (1)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 1662

One way is to use Google Cloud Messaging to send a push notification, another way is occasionally poll server for updates. Obviously first way is better because GCM batches that polling for all apps that use it => less battery drain etc.

In your case you probably also want to poll server for settings right before showing them in the app.

Upvotes: 3

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