It took me some times to find again where I can setup Google Cloud Messaging. It’s quite confusing as there are several consoles: https://console.developers.google.com and https://console.cloud.google.com
So to setup GCM:
- go to https://console.cloud.google.com
- select your existing project or create a new one (note that as of writing this, even if you created an app in https://console.developers.google.com it does not appear in https://console.cloud.google.com and you need to create it)
- on the dashboard you’ll see your project ID (you’ll want to write it down as you’ll need it later)
- click Go to APIs overview
- go to Credentials
- click Create credentials then select API key and finally click Server key
- add the address of the server(s) that will send push notifications (note that for test purposes you can use
0.0.0.0/0to allow anyone, but once your live backend is ready, you’ll want to put the real address) - you’ll see your new key, you’ll want to copy the Key part and use it with your project ID to send push notifications
- go to the dashboard and enable the Google Cloud Messaging API
Note:
- you now have Firebase Cloud Messaging that will probably end up replacing GCM.
- now that I try again a few days later, I see the same UI and content on both cloud and developers addresses, just different header. The confusing thing is that by default I end up in the “IAM & Admin” section, and there seems to be no link to get out. Just click on the header (Google Cloud Platform or Google APIs) to go back to the dashboard.