Re: [android-developers] Android app with Message notification and Service

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Aliasgar Rangwala <aliwork79@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are having our application on Android and plan to add message alerts to
> our Android app users. The app will run in background and the moment any new
> alert is sent from central server the user should get notification alert on
> his Android device.

This sounds like a fine use case for Google Cloud Messaging or similar
services, so you do not need your app to "run in background" all of
the time.

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