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Working on a device-owner application (installed at provision time with NFC), so far I did not find any way to provision devices directly with a PlayStore-based-App, that is why I keep using a private distribution mode for my apk, directly downloaded from a private server...

In this context here is my question: is there a way to use GCM with an App that isn't distributed on the Google Play Store?

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Developers will be able to sign-up for GCM for both Play and non-Play apps. However, GCM stats will be available for only published Google Play apps. So yes, I believe you can use GCM with a non-Play Store app.

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  • Thanks for this detail that I missed ! However, only an API Key is not enough, it needs to be paired with an App to get a sender ID Key... And I did not find a way to get this sender ID by another way than registering an app... strange... – JBA Mar 03 '15 at 01:05