Please try the android-gcm Google Group for GCM-related questions. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Dimitar <orangecounty...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a published app that currently is using C2DM and we would like to > move to the new GCM service. > The migration document on this subject from Google is pretty straight > forward but it does not clarify a couple of important questions: > > If all we did was enable the GCM service to start the development of the new > version of the app, would that affect our existing C2DM process for our > published version? I would think the answer is "NO" but since we do not want > to disrupt the service we provide to our existing customers, we would like > to be sure before moving forward. > In order to avoid any disruption of service with our existing customers we > are planning on keeping track of wether a device has the old C2DM > Registration ID or the new GCM Registration ID. The process would be as > follows: If it is a new customer who downloaded our new version of the app > with GCM, it is pretty straight forward and they will obtain the new Reg ID > when they start the app, which will get reported to our servers. But if this > is an existing user who upgraded from the old application with C2DM, they > already have their device registered with the old C2DM registration ID with > our servers, so there are two possibilities: > > They updated the app and they started the app right after. In this case they > would obtain a new GCM Registration ID and that would get reported to our > servers. So, no issues anticipated here. > They updated the app, but did not immediately start the app. In this case > our server would still have the old C2DM Reg ID. Our plan is to have two > server side push notifications services during the transition period to > handle this scenario (and also support all the old users who decided not to > upgrade the app). If the user has the old Registration ID, the old push > notification service will send the notification the way we have been doing > before. If the user has a new GCM Reg ID we will be using the new GCM push > service on the server. Dose anyone see a problem with this logic? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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