As I understand it, there are two ways to send data from GAE to my app:
- The app does a request and the server sends the data as a response.
- The server sends the data directly to the app without the app doing a request.
I know how to send data with (1) but how do I send data with (2)?
It seems you are looking for Google Cloud messaging which helps “Push”ing the messages from your server to your app (via GCM Service)
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