CODEWITHSUNDEEP
firebasepush-notificationfirebase-cloud-messaging
Mr Jones
Mr Jones

Reputation: 181

How to send notifications to all devices using Firebase Cloud Messaging

On the Firebase doc, it always has a "to" field with a device/token id... but how can I get it to send the notification to all devices. What do I replace the to field with, or what value do I put in there. I'd removed it altogether but it comes back with an error asking for it. Any ideas?

{
   "to" : "bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_HHwgIpoDKCIZvvDMExUdFQ3P1...",
   "data" : {
     "Nick" : "Mario",
     "body" : "great match!",
     "Room" : "PortugalVSDenmark"
   },
 }

Upvotes: 5

Views: 12946

Answers (3)

emportella
emportella

Reputation: 333

As Frank van Puffelen said there isn't a way to send to all devices. What you could do is to subscribe everyone to a single topic in the app side using:

FirebaseMessaging.getInstance().subscribeToTopic("TopicName");

So your message would look like this:

  {
   "to"   : "/topics/TopicName",
   "data" : {
     "Nick" : "Mario",
     "body" : "great match!",
     "Room" : "PortugalVSDenmark"
   },
 }

The topic is automatically created in the Firebase server side, but sometimes it takes a while to show up in the Firebase drop down list.

The number of users in a single topic are unlimited.

Upvotes: 7

Anandroid
Anandroid

Reputation: 403

You can use the Firebase console to send notification to all the devices.

Upvotes: 0

Frank van Puffelen
Frank van Puffelen

Reputation: 598603

You cannot send to "all devices".

Instead you can target a specific device, a group of devices or a topic when using the Firebase Cloud Messaging API. Alternatively you can send to a user segment, a specific device, or a topic when using the Firebase Notifications console.

With Firebase Notifications you can get closest, since there is a default user segment that includes all devices that have a specific app installed. So if you have an Android and an iOS app, that would be two notifications. But there's no programmatic way to send to such an audience (yet).

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions