How to send notification without having the user to register his email

Question

I have been reading about sending notifications to all my android users. I found Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). However this service doesnt really give what I want. The user who downloads my android will need to register his/her email ID before they can receive messages from my php server.

However I wish that anybody who downloads the server will just have the opportunity to receive notifications from my php server without having to go through the process of registering his email ID.

Please is there any service that can do just that or there is a way out? Thank You.

Answer 1

I haven't used GCM, but I used Parse on my app. It's pretty simple, free, and it provides a nice interface to send your Push Notifications. You only have to register your user to a channel (or none, and the default is broadcast) and the user doesn't need to do anything.

If you don't necessarily need to send your notifications from your server, that's a good solution. Check out Parse's tutorial on Android to send Push notifications.