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Fragender
Fragender

Reputation: 23

PWA Push API vs Android Push Notifications

today i have a question about:

Progressive Web Apps and the Push API vs native Android Applications and their Push Notification counter part. I want to know how both approaches work.

To my understanding the service worker of the PWA (Progressive Web App) using the Push API receives their push message from a push service, whichs is a system used by the application server. The service worker can then display a notification on the device.

How does a native android application do this?

Maybe like this: The android application uses the FirebaseMessaging API to receive their push message from the firebase service used by the application server. The application can then display a notification on the device. Even different kind of notifications (status bar notification, heads-up notification, lock screen notifications, app icon badge notifications)

Do both, pwa and the native apps use FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging) ? Where are the differences?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1080

Answers (1)

McMurphy
McMurphy

Reputation: 1274

I have not yet used FCM in a PWA but would recommend it based on what I have read. Especially the fact that FCM supports Topic-Based message subscriptions such as weather-forecasts, sports-reports, news-headlines etc.

W3C/IETF force your application to keep track of ALL mapping of individual user-subscriptions. That is, NO message broadcast capability :-(

Upvotes: 0

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