[aerogear-dev] Consuming Google-Services.json

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>
wrote:

> See JIRA : https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-473
>

Played w/ that file today as well :-)


>
> Background : Currently we have a developer manually enter the Google
> Project ID to enable push messages in their application.  However, this
> approach is considered "legacy" from Google's POV and they are encouraging
> consuming the Google-services.json file.
>
> There are two ways we can consume this file.  The first is to parse it
> manually and extract the key "project_info/project_number"[1].
>

That's sounds most safe thing, and it's safe, according to Google :)
In case the "project_number" is not present (e.g. dev is 'smart' and edits
file), let's have a proper error and call it a day :-)


> The second is to have the developer add the google services plugin to
> their Gradle projects and then we can consume the key from the resources
> with the field "R.string.gcm_defaultSenderId".
>
> I would prefer to parse the file manually.  It make our code less reliant
> on Google's tools and it allows our users to choose if they will use
> Google's plug in for its other features.
>

Yeah, I feel same, might be also a bit odd to rely on a plugin, just for
this...


> However, Google's plugin may provide extra features or validation which
> may be useful in the future.
>

Sure, comes time, we can see :)


>
>
> Wdyt?
>
> Summers
>
> 1: This is a documented value described in this section :
> https://developers.google.com/android/guides/google-services-plugin#processing_the_json_file
>
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