1 page.title=Integrate Google Cloud Messaging 2 page.metaDescription=Keep your users in sync with your latest content by delivering lightweight messages over Google's infrastructure. 3 page.tags="gcm" 4 page.image=/images/cards/card-google-cloud-messaging_16-9_2x.png 5 6 @jd:body 7 8 <div class="figure"> 9 <img src="{@docRoot}images/cards/card-google-cloud-messaging_16-9_2x.png"> 10 </div> 11 12 <p> 13 Keeping app content fresh is important to retaining users. And its easy with 14 the popular <a href="{@docRoot}google/gcm/index.html">Google Cloud 15 Messaging</a> for Android, by sending lightweight messages to your apps 16 installed on Android devices anywhere in the world. 17 </p> 18 19 <p> 20 Push messages from your backend servers to tell your apps that there's new 21 content for the user, or other data to sync. 22 </p> 23 24 <p> 25 You can use Google Cloud Messaging for two way messaging too. Another 26 possibility is to improve the experience for users with multiple devices, by 27 syncing content through the cloud so users have the same content on all their 28 devices. 29 </p> 30 31 <p> 32 Google Cloud Messaging lets your users stay in sync with your service without 33 draining the users battery, as there's no need for your apps poll a server 34 to discover new content. Best of all, Google Cloud Messaging is available for 35 free and there are no quotas. 36 </p> 37 38 <div class="headerLine"> 39 <h2 id="related-resources"> 40 Related Resources 41 </h2> 42 43 44 </div> 45 46 <div class="resource-widget resource-flow-layout col-13" 47 data-query="collection:distribute/engage/gcm" 48 data-sortorder="-timestamp" 49 data-cardsizes="9x3" 50 data-maxresults="6"> 51 </div>
