Using C2DM to receive notification from gmail server

Question

I'd like my Android app to receive notification when new messages arrive in my gmail account. I realize that the Android gmail client does not broadcast notification when it receives messages. Instead I want to utilize the gmail server's Cloud to Device Messaging capabilities to do this. I read the article at http://code.google.com/android/c2dm/ - the only "missing piece" for me is to understand how my app sends a registration ID to the gmail server. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Tom

Answer 1

While Android's GMail client (and Contacts, Calendar, etc.) uses a push style notification system, it's not C2DM, as that is only available on Android 2.2+ devices for now. That being the case, I don't think Google provides a C2DM service to receive push notifications of received e-mails, nor do I think they will, but I can't say for sure.