Disabling GCM push notification

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I use GCM push notification for my Android app which is basically an instant messenger like Line/What's App. In my app, even after the user logs out, the push notification continue to happen. IN other words, I have no control over the notifications.

Ideally, I would like the notifications to stop when the user logs out of the app and resume after he logs in. Thanks in advance.

You should share a bit how you implement the push notifications, What you have tried already to make them stop and didn't work. — Raanan, Feb 18 '13 at 09:21

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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You should use SharedPreferences.

You should have a preference that contain the value if the user should be alerted or not. Let's say, once a user logged out - set the preference value to false. Now,in your GCMIntentService in the onMessage method, check the value of the preference, if its false, just do nothing.

Have a look at this example:

How to use SharedPreferences in Android to store, fetch and edit values

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Feb 18 '13 at 09:27

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Brilliant! I forgot I was creating a notification upon reception of GCM message... – Raphael Royer-Rivard Jul 22 '15 at 20:43

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 30 '14 at 06:14

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Call This Method GCMRegistrar.unregister(context); when the user signs out to stop receiving the push messages.

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answered Feb 18 '13 at 09:36

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Intent unregIntent = new Intent("com.google.android.c2dm.intent.UNREGISTER"); unregIntent.putExtra("app", PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, new Intent(), 0)); startService(unregIntent); I saw this code from google to unregister my device, Any way how to use this – Mikelbstek Feb 18 '13 at 10:50

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 18 '13 at 09:43

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You have to unregister your app to avoid receiving further push notifications. You can use GCMRegistrar.unregistrar() to make this happen.

answered Feb 18 '13 at 09:43

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 27 '16 at 17:30

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As Google unregister() method was deprecated, instead use the InstanceID.deleteInstanceID().

answered Sep 27 '16 at 17:30

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Disabling GCM push notification

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