AndroidLost.com - Out of order

Status

I do apologize but this site is currently out of order.

I am working hard to get the site up and running again, but I expect it will take some days or perhaps weeks before we are back again.

What happened?

In one word: Google

In the good old days we had C2DM - cloud to device message. This was a great system that allowed developers to push messages from a server to a mobile phone. And there were much rejoicing.

Then came GCM - Google Cloud Message. This allowed ud to send messages from a server to a mobile phone. Had to rewrite some code, but the benefit was... that ehhh... I am still wondering.

Next up was FCM - Firebase Cloud Message. With this new innovation Google sparkled as they demonstrated how developers now could... send messages from a server to a phone. I never thought I should live to see this, but I swear this is true.

This time they still call the product FCM, but they have broken the api so it no longer works. But as soon as I rewrite my code, we will be able to send messages from a server to your mobile phone! I am so happy with joy about this marvelous invention.

Progress

When are we back? What are you doing?

I spend the first couple of days trying to rebuild my old web page. But alas I was using a google technology called GWT and you probably guessed it - google has sent it to the graveyard and it is no longer supported. It should still be possible to build it so I did spend some time but I cannot make it work. Tried different IDEs but no go.

This is also the bad news, since I now have to rewrite the entire server from scratch again. We are talking Push messages, cloud connection, database connections, webpages etc. I will do my best to get it back up and running as soon as I can.

I do apologize for the inconvenience,


BR


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