Set up push notifications, step by step

Get started with PusherHub The whole journey in four steps: your account, your app, Firebase, and your first push notification. 4 min read

Create a Firebase project PusherHub delivers push notifications through Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Set up a free Firebase project and add your app to it. 5 min read Get your Firebase service account file The one file PusherHub needs to send push notifications through Firebase Cloud Messaging — where to download it, and where to upload it. 3 min read Find your Sender ID Where the Sender ID on PusherHub's form lives in the Firebase console. 1 min read iOS push notifications: add your Apple push key to Firebase iPhones only get push notifications through the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). Give Firebase your APNs key once, and iOS push notifications just work. 6 min read

Add push notifications to your app Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native or Unity: where your app's ready-made setup steps are, with its keys filled in. 5 min read Flutter push notifications: add the SDK step by step Android and iOS, every step with a picture from a real Flutter app: the SDK file, the packages, the Gradle and Xcode settings, and the code in main.dart. 12 min read Android push notifications (Kotlin): add the SDK step by step Every step with a picture from a real Kotlin app: where the SDK file goes, the Firebase lines in Gradle, the manifest and the code in MainActivity. 8 min read Android push notifications (Java): add the SDK step by step Every step with a picture from a real Java app: where the SDK file goes, the Firebase lines in Gradle, the manifest and the code in MainActivity. 8 min read React Native push notifications: add the SDK step by step Android and iOS, with Expo too — every step with a picture from a real React Native app: the SDK file, the packages, Gradle, the Podfile, Xcode and the code in App.tsx. 12 min read iOS push notifications (Swift): add the SDK step by step Every step with a picture from a real SwiftUI app: the Firebase package, where the SDK file goes, push notifications in Xcode and the code in AppDelegate. 10 min read Unity push notifications: add the SDK step by step Android and iOS, every step with a picture from a real Unity game: the Firebase Messaging package, where the files go, and the one script that starts PusherHub. 8 min read

Send a test push notification Check everything works by sending one notification to your own phone. 2 min read Send your first push notification Send to everyone, a platform, a segment or one user — now or later — and see how it did. 4 min read