Android Device Not Receiving GCM Notifications from Amazon SNS

Question

We are moving our notification service from our servers to SNS. We have followed up AWS documentation. We were able to setup iOS notifications successfully.

But when sending to android nothing is received on the device. We have setup the application using the same key on our live server currently, we added an endpoint using a device hash that is active on the devices databases. We are trying to send the messages from SNS panel, but nothing is received on our android device!

What could we be missing to setup a working GCM with Amzon SNS?

Answer 1

Use a notification payload with a body, instead of a data payload. Here is the JSON:

{
 "GCM": "{ \"notification\": { \"body\": \"Hey. Just saying hi.\" } }"
}