Push notifications are the ideal solution to re-engage users and bring them back to your app.
This guide shows you how to configure an Android app to send and receive push notifications.
Estimated setup time: 10 minutes.
Using Cordova? Check out our Push Notifications Quickstart for Cordova.
Prerequisites
You'll need:
- Android Studio
- A device or emulator with Google Play services installed and up-to-date
- A Firebase account
If you haven't already, sign up for a free account on wonderpush.com.
Upgrading from a previous version of the Android SDK?
Follow this guide to update your integration.
Step 1. Create your project
Click on New Project:
Choose a name for your project and select Android as a platform then click Create:
Already have a project?
Just add the Android platform to any existing project by going to Settings, selecting the first tab named after your project and clicking Edit. You'll be presented a form that lets you add a platform.
Step 2. Fill your Firebase credentials in the dashboard
- Locate your Server Key and Sender ID in the Firebase project Cloud Messaging settings.
In your Firebase project console, click the gear icon (⚙️) and select Project settings and go to the Cloud Messaging tab.
- Go to your WonderPush dashboard, in the Settings page, select the Platforms tab and click on Android application.
- Paste the Server key.
- Click Save.
Step 3. Add the SDK as a dependency
Add the WonderPush Android SDK as a dependency of your app/build.gradle file:
dependencies {
// Android Studio will recommend to replace the + range with a specific version.
// If you do so, do not forget to upgrade it regularly.
// See: https://github.com/wonderpush/wonderpush-android-sdk/releases
// See: https://discuss.wonderpush.com/c/announcements
implementation 'com.wonderpush:wonderpush-android-sdk:3.+'
}android {
defaultConfig {
// Note that it's important to keep the double quotes as part of the third argument
// as this represents a string in Java code
buildConfigField 'String', 'WONDERPUSH_CLIENT_ID', '"YOUR_CLIENT_ID"'
buildConfigField 'String', 'WONDERPUSH_CLIENT_SECRET', '"YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET"'
buildConfigField 'String', 'WONDERPUSH_SENDER_ID', '"YOUR_SENDER_ID"'
}
}Replace YOUR_CLIENT_ID and YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET with the appropriate values you find in the Platforms page, in the Android application section.
Replace YOUR_SENDER_ID with the Firebase Sender ID from step 2
Note that it's important to keep the double quotes as part of the third argument as this represents a string in Java code.
Step 5. Sync Gradle and build
Click Sync now in the banner that showed up in your editor, or click the Sync project with Gradle files button in the toolbar.
Then build your project.
Getting an error?
- Messages about targetSdkVersion, compileSdkVersion or minSdkVersion? Make sure you use minimum required versions
- Resolve error
All com.android.support libraries must use the exact same version specification
Step 6. Setup ProGuard
Recommended
In order to have meaningful stack traces of your application released in Google Play, we recommend that you keep ProGuard from obfuscating WonderPush class names, file names and line numbers.
Add the following to your proguard-rules.pro file:
# For easier debugging, we strongly recommend keeping WonderPush class names unobfuscated
-keepattributes SourceFile,LineNumberTable,Signature
-keepnames class com.wonderpush.sdk.** {
*;
}
-keepnames interface com.wonderpush.sdk.** {
*;
}When using ProGuard, don't forget to save your mapping.txt of each release in a safe place.
This file is found in app/build/outputs/mapping/release/mapping.txt.
Receive your first push!
Build and run your application.
Wait a couple of minutes and receive the default welcome notification:
Congratulations, you're done!
Updated 3 months ago