gnobal / GcmDropboxBridge

Registers the device in GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) and saves the registration ID in Dropbox, allowing you to send messages to the device from anything that has Dropbox installed

GcmDropboxBridge

Registers the device in GCM and saves the registration ID in Dropbox, allowing you to send messages to the device from anything that has Dropbox installed

Setup Steps

This repository is missing a file (app/src/main/java/net/gnobal/gcmdropboxbridge/Secrets.java) which needs to contain the private keys you get from Google and Dropbox.

The file needs to look like this:

package net.gnobal.gcmdropboxbridge;

public class Secrets {
    // See https://developer.android.com/google/gcm/gcm.html#senderid
    final static String GCM_SENDER_ID = "GCM_SENDER_ID";

    // See https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/start/android
    final static String DB_APP_KEY = "DROPBOX_APP_KEY";
    final static String DB_APP_SECRET = "DROPBOX_APP_SECRET";
}

Once you have this file in your repository, the app can work. Start it and click the "Setup" button. Afterwards you can send messages to your device from a script like this:

#!/bin/bash

# The key is from the Google API console
# https://code.google.com/apis/console
GOOGLE_API_KEY="YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY"
TOKEN_PATH=~/Dropbox/Apps/GcmBridge/regid.txt
TOKEN=$(<$TOKEN_PATH)
MESSAGE="Hello GCM!"

curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: key=$GOOGLE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"registration_ids": [ "'"$TOKEN"'" ],
"data": {
"message": "'"$MESSAGE"'" 
} 
}' \
https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send