First, Google’s push service only works on Android 2.2, which still has fairly limited distribution — Urban Airship’s will work on Android phones running 1.5 and up.

For Android users that aren't on a Chromebook though, you can use the third-party Pushbullet app and its accompanying Chrome extension to enjoy cross-platform notifications, too.

Design & Dev Instagram wrote its own push notification server for Android, and it’s open-sourcing it April 5, 2012 - 11:11 pm On Tuesday, Instagram released its photo sharing client on Android.

Google today rolled out a new feature for Android users designed to keep their accounts more secure: notifications about newly added devices. That is, when a new device is added to your Google ...

Starting with Android 8.0 you can separate your app’s notifications into notification channels. All notifications that are posted to the same channel have the same behaviour, for example you ...

Earlier this year, Google updated the Android and desktop versions of Chrome to allow a range of popular websites — including eBay, Pinterest, and Vice — to send you push notifications. Now ...

Chrome Story discovered the new flag but hasn't received a notification yet, so we can't say what it looks like. If anyone is curious and using Chrome Canary, why not enable it and see what happens.