HUAWEI Push Kit is a messaging service provided for you. It establishes a messaging channel from the cloud to devices. By integrating Push Kit, you can send messages to your apps on users’ devices in real time. This helps you maintain closer ties with users and increases user awareness of and engagement with your apps. The following figure shows the process of sending messages from the cloud to devices.

Currently, Push Kit has been supported in mobile phones, tablets, HUAWEI Vision, HUAWEI Watch, and Volvo and Dongfeng Sokon head units.

Push Kit Documentation

How to use Huawei Push Kit?

 

First, you need to register a Huawei Developer account. You can register it for free from the link below.

Register to Huawei Developer Portal

Once you create your account and login, create a new project:

Then, create an application inside your project:

Adjust the settings of the application. Since it is a sample project, I share all the information with you. Your settings will look like:

Then, we need to produce SHA-256 certificate fingerprints. We click on the Gradle area on the right in Android Studio.

Clicking the signingReport button under Tasks, we generate SHA 256 code. We add it to the relevant field in the project settings.

We need to activate Push Kit from the Manage API section.

Push Kit Settings will display after we enable it from app settings.

Pick a region suited to your needs. I’ve picked Germany.

We can now create an example notification. We fill in the fields below for the notification example.

When we click the test effect button, it will ask us for tokens.

In this step, we will be able to learn the token value we need when we integrate the Push Kit into the application.

Add Push Kit to build.gradle(:app) file

implementation 'com.huawei.hms:push:5.0.0.300'

We create a function in Main Activity. We define an instance to get the token value.

 private fun getToken() {
        object : Thread() {
            override fun run() {
                try {
                    val appId =
                        AGConnectServicesConfig.fromContext(this@MainActivity)
                            .getString("client/app_id")
                    val token = HmsInstanceId.getInstance(this@MainActivity)
                        .getToken(appId, "HCM")
                    Log.i("PUSH", "getToken() token: $token")
                } catch (e: ApiException) {
                    Log.e("PUSH", "getToken() failure: " + e.message)
                }
            }
        }.start()
    }

We run the application. The token value is displayed in the log section.

We put this token value in the field in the Push Kit test.

We will test the application with Cloud Debugging.You can run the application by following the below document.

https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/development/AppGallery-connect-Guides/agc-clouddebug-realtimedebug

We have done all the necessary actions. Congratulations ? You have developed the first Huawei Push Kit application.