Get android mobile token for Push notifications

Question

I have a android application which sends to my PHP script the following information: mobile_id, os_version, app_version.

Is it possible to retrieve the android device token from those parameters? I've heard you should connect to google somehow to get it..

But, I couldn't find any information about..

I'm newbie to android applications. any help will be appreciated:)

Answer 1

You need to implement GCM to do so.

Please follow this link for details explanations.

Google Cloud Messaging

Thanks.

Answer 2

GCM is being deprecated. Use FCM instead:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/

Same platform as GCM but extended with more features.