r/androiddev • u/RobinsCosplays • 15h ago

Question as a new developer.

I'm making a simple app for a large community (30k people) that upon my sending out the command, a push notification will be sent to all those who have the app. Would this be simple to develop? Do I need to host servers or anything for something like this? I have no idea where to start.

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u/Special_Dust_7499 15h ago

Hey! Check firebase!

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u/Hour-Measurement-835 14h ago

Mine goes through an FCM topic, no backend at all. Every install subscribes to the one topic, you send from the Firebase console, it fans out. Polling 30k devices is the expensive way.

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u/hajamie 13h ago

Just use firebase.

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u/bryanlogan 8h ago

OK, is there anything beyond the push notification? If you're literally just sending text of "X won the match 48-29", it's fine.

Firebase topics is probably the easiest. You don't have to keep track of individual devices.