What is Firebase Cloud Messaging?
It is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.
Firebase Cloud Messaging is a tool in the Mobile Push Messaging category of a tech stack.
Who uses Firebase Cloud Messaging?
Companies
86 companies reportedly use Firebase Cloud Messaging in their tech stacks, including Barogo, Colavosalon, and wadiz.
Developers
173 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Firebase Cloud Messaging.
Firebase Cloud Messaging Integrations
Apple Push Notification Service, Knock, Engagespot, Notifee, and Deliverpush are some of the popular tools that integrate with Firebase Cloud Messaging. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Firebase Cloud Messaging.
Pros of Firebase Cloud Messaging
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Firebase Cloud Messaging Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Firebase Cloud Messaging?
OneSignal
OneSignal is a high volume push notification service for websites and mobile applications. OneSignal supports all major native and mobile platforms by providing dedicated SDKs for each platform, a RESTful server API, and a dashboard.
Google Cloud Messaging
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client apps. This includes downstream messages from servers to client apps, and upstream messages from client apps to servers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
