Firebase push notifications with custom backend

[Marcus Dyrholm]

Hi, I am researching some options for how to handle push notifications to our application built in Unity.

The use case here is that clients have access to a custom backend website were they themselves can manage their own users. Here they can also post their project specific news update to their users.

My question is, is there a way for us using our own backend, coded mostly in Python, to send push notifications to our users.

[Joe Spiro]

Hello, my name is Joe and I work on Firebase.

There are multiple ways to send push notifications from your backend using Firebase Cloud Messaging: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/server#choosing-a-server-option

While you can use this functionality via raw protocols (including the  FCM HTTP v1 API), I prefer (and would recommend) the Firebase Admin SDK, due to its support of Python and the inclusion of some convenience/helper methods that make the development process simpler: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/server#firebase-admin-sdk-for-fcm

I would love to hear about how this works for you.