Here is a nifty little tool to help developers test GCM notifications. While developing GCM or Google Cloud Messaging Notifications in Android applications, it is important to have a simple server to test if client code is working correctly. This free GCM notifications test tool below does exactly that – allows you to easily send GCM notifications to your Android client without needing to code out the server side code.
Instructions for using the GCM Notifications Test Tool
Enter the API Key and the GCM ID of the client that you want to the send the test notification to.
Enter the data for the notifications. You can enter this as key-value pairs. If you are using sample code, your default key is probably ‘message’ (enter this in the Key 1 box) and you can enter ‘hello world’ in the value field (enter this in the Value 1 box).
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Hi..it's very helpful tool. I am able to sending the push notification but message was not received on the device.
Would you please any one help me on this.
Will need more information to help you.
1. Did you get a success code in the response from the tool?
2. Did you cross check the GCM id?
3. Have you implemented the broadcast receiver correctly? You can print logs and see whether they are showing up in logcat.
Thank you for your effort! It works great for me.
Can we also send unescaped string, some thing like :
"data":{"id":31232, "tex":"fsfds"} ?
I've got "Internal Server Error - Error 500"? What's wrong?
I just tested it. It seems to be working fine with my test case. Can you specify what message you are trying to send so that we can debug this issue?
Thanx Dude... Really helpful while testing android notifications. Thumbs Up!!
Hi,
How to send message to any specific time? I am unable to do so by setting "data": {
"score": "4x8",
"time": "15:47.2342"
}
very gud tool.. this helped me lot :) thank u
Nice tool for testing Push Notification,
but if you could also provide options to add more key value fields, that would be really more helpful...
Does it Support for iOS ?
No, this is for Android only.
Very helpfull, thank you(all) very much
This is really very helpful! Thank you.