Android GCM PushNotification Testing

Some time we need to simulate push notification into our android device for testing purpose .
This facilty is still not provided into inbuilt android sdk .
But same can be achived from online api testing site called Hurl.it

Below are steps for that

Step 1 : In the Destination combo box select Post

Step 2: Click on Add headers button and put the following values for name and vale
            name = "Authorization"   value= "key=YOU_GOOGLE_API_KEY"
            name="Content-Type"   value ="application/json"
Step 3: Click on Add Body and put the json values into following format

Step 4 :put  "https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send"  in url filed

          {

• "registration_ids":[
  1. "sdfsdfsdf",
  2. "GCM REGISTRATION TOEKM OF YOUR DEVICE"
  ],
• "data":{
  • "message":"testing",
  • "usertype":"driver",
  • "bookingid":"8"
  }

}

registration_ids and data are mandatory fields and under data u can send any string data 

Step 4: click on Launch Request

You can see the response in following formate

{"multicast_id": 4635199670770759000,"success": 1,"failure": 1,"canonical_ids": 0,"results": [{"error": "InvalidRegistration"},{"message_id": "0:1382190107462279%63ac093bf9fd7ecd"}]}