this guide got me up and running: http://code.google.com/android/c2dm/index.html
only thing its missing, is how the server authenticates (the auth variable in the http post), but i found that pretty easily elsewhere On Apr 14, 2:31 pm, nino <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an application that uses C2DM notifications. I'm pretty new to > Android development because I think my problem is actually quite > simple and I just don't know how the android architecture works so > here it goes, I hope you guys can help. > > What I did basically is copy the classes C2DMBaseReceiver, > C2DMBroadcastReceiver and C2DMMessaging from the chrometophone > project. I then created a C2DMReceiver extends C2DMBaseReceiver and > created the override events. The onMessage event works, as I added a > log entry to output the data I push to the device. Now I have an > activity and would like to pop up an alert box from the (already > opened) activity, as soon as a message is pushed to my device. I'm > really lost here, as I can't figure it out. > > Google and many different forums/mailing lists are suggesting me to > initiate a BroadCastReceiver in the activity and override the > onReceive method. The problem is that the C2DMBroadcastReceiver has > declared the onReceive method as final, so there is no way to > overwrite it. So I started to think, that this is not the right way to > go... > > I found some other example, telling me to send a broadcast from my > C2DMReceiver and watch this from my Activity, I think this sounds > reasonable, but I have no idea how to implement it.. Does anyone of > you have some examples on how to get started here? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

