1page.title=Integrate Google Cloud Messaging
2page.metaDescription=Keep your users in sync with your latest content by delivering lightweight messages over Google's infrastructure.
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13  Keeping app content fresh is important to retaining users. And it’s easy with
14  the popular <a href="{@docRoot}google/gcm/index.html">Google Cloud
15  Messaging</a> for Android, by sending lightweight messages to your apps
16  installed on Android devices anywhere in the world.
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20  Push messages from your backend servers to tell your apps that there's new
21  content for the user, or other data to sync.
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25  You can use Google Cloud Messaging for two way messaging too. Another
26  possibility is to improve the experience for users with multiple devices, by
27  syncing content through the cloud so users have the same content on all their
28  devices.
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32  Google Cloud Messaging lets your users stay in sync with your service without
33  draining the user’s battery, as there's no need for your apps poll a server
34  to discover new content. Best of all, Google Cloud Messaging is available for
35  free and there are no quotas.
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