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Android push notifications at Mattermost

Push notifications on Android are managed and dispatched using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

• Create a Firebase project within the Firebase Console.

• Click Add Project

• Enter the project name, project ID and Country

• Click CREATE PROJECT

  

Once the project is created you’ll be redirected to the Firebase project dashboard

• Click Add Firebase to your Android App

• Enter the package ID of your custom Mattermost app as the Android package name.

• Enter an App nickname so you can identify it with ease

• Click REGISTER APP

• Once the app has been registered, download the google-services.json file which will be used later

• Click CONTINUE and then FINISH

Now that you have created the Firebase project and the app and downloaded the google-services.json file, you need to make some changes in the project.

• Replace android/app/google-services.json with the one you downloaded earlier

At this point, you can build the Mattermost app for Android and setup the Mattermost Push Notification Service.