Re: [aerogear-dev] FCM topic: use on alias as well ?

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew(a)apache.org&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > on FCM related push, we do, in our client SDK, automatically subscribe a > client to an annoymous topic, matching our immutable variant ID. > > If users are specifying categories, we do map those into topics as well. > > This is the related code in our Android SDK: > https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android-push/blob/maste > r/aerogear-android-push/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/ > android/unifiedpush/fcm/AeroGearFCMPushRegistrar.java#L188-L193 > > How do people feel about doing that for the alias as well ? > I really like that idea. > > In the past we did not do it, since topics used to be a more restricted > resource. Remember, the first notion of topics (GCM v3, at that time) were > even limiting the number of max. subscribers? > > However, that changed, and I think it would be nice if we just use the > topics for each alias of the app as well. This would speed up the time to > deliver the push request to the FCM backend, since the UPS would no longer > need to look up the device, a push, regardless how many devices, means one > small HTTP to Google, per alias (aka topic) > > Any thoughts ? > > NOTE: There is a general limit of topic abuse, but that's on the app > instance (see [1]), so our APP Developers need to make sure they don't go > crazy w/ a gazillion of categories ;-) > Just a heads up about topics limit => https://stackoverflow.com/ questions/38171259/maximum-number-of-topics-a-device-can- subscribe-to-in-fcm > > -Matthias > > > [1] https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/admin/errors > > -- > Matthias Wessendorf > > blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > -- -- Passos _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev