[Aerogear-users] Testing push in Cordova

[Rob Willett]

Just to throw my 2c in here.

We test push notifications on the Genymotion emulator. Out of the box 
Genymotion does NOT support notifications but its pretty easy to get 
notifications working on Genymotion.

We used this page

http://inthecheesefactory.com/blog/how-to-install-google-services-on-genymotion/en

to get it working. This works with all the commercial push providers we 
have checked out.

We have not found a way to get Android 6 working with push on Genymotion 
but since Android 6 is still preview on Genymotion its not an issue for 
us.

However we haven’t found that deploying to a real device (Nexus 5) to 
be much slower than Genymotion. We’re happy to deploy to any as its 
pretty speedy either way.

Unclear as to why deploying to a real device is such a problem, we 
develop on iPhone and Android using Cordova and even though I like the 
iPhone, the development and debugging tools on a real Android device are 
excellent and fast. When we have a real problem, we tend to ignore Xcode 
and Safari and the iPhone and debug it on a real Android device. We 
don’t have any real issues, though we always want things to be 
quicker.

Rob

On 22 Jan 2016, at 11:47, Anton Hughes wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Passos <dpassos at redhat.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> By default GCM/Push don't work on Google emulator, only in the last
>> versions, but I always prefer test it in a real device to prevent 
>> problems.
>
>
> If I have to deploy to a real device to do basic testing I will go 
> (more)
> insane.
> There has to be away of testing push that doesnt involve deploying to 
> an
> actual device.
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