So after talking with matzew for a bit, I've put together this list of
things that need to be done on Android to have a good push experience
(for the user). My goal is that we discuss these things to inform a
(eventual) push client spec.
1) Gobs of XML Boilerplate.
the Android manifest needs permissions and uses permissions stanzas
as well as defining the Google Cloud Message receiver. *We should
probably have tooling which does this for the user*
see:
https://github.com/secondsun/devnexus2013demo/blob/master/coffeeExample/A...
2) A Intent handling Service.
This Service class extends *GCMBaseIntentService*has three
responsibilities, *Registering* clients, *Unregistering* clients, and
*Handling* messages.
see:
https://github.com/secondsun/devnexus2013demo/blob/master/coffeeExample/s...
I would prefer developers not have to extend this class, but that is
a talk for a different day.
3) Some utlities for handling/parsing/routing notifications to other
bits of code. Again, this is a talk for a different day.
Appendix:
Here is a link to a class based HEAVILY on Google's Service Utilities
class from their demo apps
https://github.com/secondsun/devnexus2013demo/blob/master/coffeeExample/s...