Retirement Announcement - Azure Notification Hubs FCM Legacy API

Question

Hello Azure Customers in the community, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a service that, among other things, facilitates developers sending push notifications to Google Play supported Android devices. ANH previously communicated with FCM using the Legacy HTTP protocol. FCM v1 is an updated API that offers more features and capabilities. Google will stop supporting FCM legacy HTTP on June 20, 2024. All customers must migrate your applications and notification payloads to the new format (FCM v1) before then. The Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024. Please add your questions as comments.

Answer 1

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a service that, among other things, facilitates developers sending push notifications to Google Play supported Android devices. ANH previously communicated with FCM using the Legacy HTTP protocol. FCM v1 is an updated API that offers more features and capabilities. Google will stop supporting FCM legacy HTTP on June 20, 2024. All customers must migrate your applications and notification payloads to the new format (FCM v1) before then. The Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024. Let us know if questions.

Answer 2

Hello Azure Customers,

We would like to inform you about an important update regarding Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). FCM is a service widely used by developers to send push notifications to Android devices supported by Google Play. Previously, developers communicated with FCM using the Legacy HTTP protocol. However, FCM v1 is now available, offering enhanced features and capabilities.

It's crucial to note that Google will cease supporting the FCM legacy HTTP protocol on June 20, 2024. Therefore, all customers are required to migrate their applications and notification payloads to the new format (FCM v1) before this date to ensure seamless functionality.

Additionally, please be informed that the Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.

If you have any questions or require further clarification, please feel free to add them as comments below.

Thank you.

Answer 3

I have xamarin for android app and it using the FCM and azrue notificationhub. how to migrate the android register service. could you please privide a new demo for us, I have migrate the FCM and Notification hub settings, but my app can't got any message.

My older code like this: