Improving app engagement with Firebase Messaging
When users install our app, they might not use it again after they finish what they want to do. This can lead to a decline in the number of active users, which can have different impacts on different apps.
We can leverage Firebase Cloud Messaging to send notifications to our users to remind them of our app. This will help us improve our app’s engagement and increase the number of active users. In this section, we will be setting up Firebase Cloud Messaging in our app and see how we can use it to send notifications to our app users.
First, we need to set up the Firebase Cloud Messaging SDK on our app. This allows us to use the SDK within our project and enables our app to receive Firebase notifications once the setup is complete. We will do it the same way we did for Firebase Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics. Repeat the following steps:
- Open the Firebase tool from Tools | Firebase.
- Select Cloud Messaging from...