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They use firebase for push notifications. GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) has been moved to firebase, and it can now also do Apple notifications I think so it makes sense to just stick to one.

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Except you don't need to import Firebase Analytics to use the messaging. And, same as the Facebook SDK situation earlier today, Firebase SDKs will do stuff when the app loads whether you reference them or not.

According to the repo [1] they're using: apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.crashlytics' com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging

[1] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/search?p=1...

I assume crashlytics is for crash dumps only, could firebase-messaging pull in firebase-analytics?

Why are y'all aggressively judging the codebase when you don't even know how firebase analytics works on Android? Damn

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