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TheBen
TheBen

Reputation: 3520

How can I set up an app server to send device to device notification via FCM?

I have set up push notification from Firebase console and I can send push notifications. However, I cannot send device-to-device notification yet. As I gather I would need an external app server that would observe Firebase nodes for change and then would fire off a notification via FCM.

I have seen similar question in SO here and a good but brief and not so complete explanation by Frank van Puffelen here. But I am still quite confused. Any tutorial or help as to how I can set up an app server (XMPP here) that would do the communication between client app instances and Firebase for sending notification when ChildAdded or modified and handling the key exchanges would be appreciated. (as I understand, FCM needs XMPP protocol for sending upstream notification)

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1128

Answers (2)

Chandra Eskay
Chandra Eskay

Reputation: 2203

Following this tutorial.

Send Notifications from Server

What you can do is, setup an external server using your favorite technology to listen child_added or changed and respond to the notification requests.

We used the node.js app engine to handle this. Again the funda is to move people to use other cloud paid services.

Upvotes: 1

Merlí Escarpenter Pérez
Merlí Escarpenter Pérez

Reputation: 2657

Yours it's a good question... The firebase can't send push device-to-device, then if you want to do this one, needs a app server as you said. The other possibility that I thought for a long time is a create a independent service to do two things, the first one is constantly controls events as onChildAdded, for exemple and the second one, throws local notifications.

This is solution that i think works fine before to create a app server... At final if you try to do it, explain us your experience please! Greetings!

Upvotes: 0

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