“Firebase Cloud Messaging is required for all standalone Android apps made with Expo.”
I’m a little bit unclear on what the above means. Can I use FCM even though I didn’t use Firebase to built my backend?
Am I able to create a free Firebase project and link it to my app just for the sole purpose of handling push notifications for Android?
Cheers
Yes, you can!
Thanks for the quick reply. Much appreciated.
Hi Adam
One more question. I’m expecting possibly thousands of notifications to be sent out to my user base on a daily basis. Is this possible with a free Firebase project, or will I need to upgrade to a paid version?
Thanks
You’ll only need to upgrade to a paid version if you are using firebase’s cloud functions to call Expo’s push API as you need to be on a paid plan for connections to outside services to work.
Yes, I have the code if you want, I CAN Share here
I know this post is a bit old but,
I’ve been using expo for multiple apps, and I don’t have any FCM/Firebase setup for them whatsoever, and push notification just works, both for iOS and Android. Am I missing something? I just checked the documentation and on this (link) section it says that you HAVE to set up firebase in order to make it work on Android, but I haven’t, and… it works!
@adamjnav , any thoughts?
I have experienced the same.
I just used the normal guide on the expo documentation for push notifications, and it just worked on Android. Not sure if I should (and even how I should) integrate with FCM.
Hopefully he replies soon.
Dear sir, how the firebase charges per a notification when we using firebase’s cloud functions to call Expo’s push API
Can you please share the code example
please share the code example