Building push notifications for Android and CSharp

Index

• Introduction
• The Android Application
• Sending from Firebase Portal
• The .Net Core server

Code on Github

This is inspired by Sending Push Notifications to Android with C# from Ashish K Kapoor

Introduction

This tutorial shows you how to use C# to send push notifications to an Android application. You'll create a Android app with some customization that receives push notifications by using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).

What is Push Notification

Push notifications let your application notify a user of new messages or events even when the user is not actively using your application.

How It Works

Prerequisites

Below are some prerequisites required:

• Latest version of Android Studio
• Account in FCM

Create Project on FCN

• Navigate to the Firebase Console
• Sign in with your Google account crendentials.
• Click "Create new project"

• This will carry you to a wizard like interface
• Set the project name, go on and don't accept the google analitycs stuffs

• The new project will open. Go to Project settings

• And on the Cloud Messaging Tab, take note of the Server Key

Last modified on: May 08, 2020