Why Do We Need A Push Notification Provider With FCM

I am completely new to the whole concept of push notifications. I have written a back-end server and I will send push notifications from it to the Android app, which is also writte

Solution 1:

If you want to use FCM to send push notifications, at some point in time, someone has to make a request to Google's FCM service, because Google is the only one, who can send a message to a device via FCM. Same applies for APNS, at some point in time, someone has to make a request to Apple's APNS service

Depending on your requirements, you can do this yourself in your own code or you can use some 3rd party provider. Using a 3rd party provider MAY have benefits. For instance they may take care of token management, or provide a single request for sending to Android and iOS devices, and so on and so forth. But in the end of the day, also a 3rd party provider sends out requests to Google or Apple in your behalf.

Solution 2:

You can use firebase cloud messaging service or using socket programming for this .