Disabling GCM push notification

Question

I use GCM push notification for my Android app which is basically an instant messenger like Line/What's App. In my app, even after the user logs out, the push notification continue to happen. IN other words, I have no control over the notifications.

Ideally, I would like the notifications to stop when the user logs out of the app and resume after he logs in. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should use SharedPreferences.

You should have a preference that contain the value if the user should be alerted or not. Let's say, once a user logged out - set the preference value to false. Now,in your GCMIntentService in the onMessage method, check the value of the preference, if its false, just do nothing.

Have a look at this example:

How to use SharedPreferences in Android to store, fetch and edit values

Answer 2

Call This Method GCMRegistrar.unregister(context); when the user signs out to stop receiving the push messages.

Answer 3

You have to unregister your app to avoid receiving further push notifications. You can use GCMRegistrar.unregistrar() to make this happen.

Answer 4

As Google unregister() method was deprecated, instead use the InstanceID.deleteInstanceID().