How To Push From Php To Android?

Does PubNub support push notifications on Android, as they do on iOS?

• It's quite confusing as their main page says they support mobile push gateway for both iOS and Android (http://www.pubnub.com/how-it-works/mobile/), but when I look further their support page says it only supports APNS (https://help.pubnub.com/entries/22930087-What-Native-3rd-Party-Push-Networks-are-Supported-)

• Answer:

  Does PubNub support push notifications on Android, as they do on iOS? Answer: Yes. PubNub Android Sample AppThis app demonstrates all PubNub features and functionality. It can be found in https://github.com/pubnub/java/tree/master/android/examples/PubnubExample directory. PubNub Auto-subscribing, Auto-startup AppThis is a sample app which subscribes to channel "hello_world" on receiving the android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED intent. The user is alerted about events like connect, message received etc. via notifications. Code for this app can be found in the https://github.com/pubnub/java/tree/master/android/examples/SubscribeAtBoot directory. PubNub Push on Android and iOSThe concept on how PubNub and GCM works starts with a light-weight battery optimized socket that remains open forever.  This allows the device to receive push notifications with arbitrary data payloads.  In a few lines of code you can easily add this feature. Since Android can multitask, PubNub can receive messages when in the foreground or background. However, to create a background subscribe process that will not fall victim to the device deep sleeping, create a background service with a PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK.  This is needed for both GCM and PubNub message delivery for notifications. To build a chat app you may consider additionally running a node server, etc. for user ownership of email addresses/etc. PubNub fits the purpose perfectly for chat with push notifications. Working on an app that involves both 1:N message broadcasting and 1:1 chatting features PubNub is the right choice for this.