title: Send push notification to Android, with laravel-push-notification
body: <p>A laravel-push-notification addon for laravel 5: <a href="https://github.com/davibennun/laravel-push-notification" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/davibennun/laravel-push-notification</a></p>
  
  <p>In my routes.php, I have:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Route::get('/test_gcm', 'TestGCMController@index');</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>TestGCMController:
      
  
  <pre><code>namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
  use Illuminate\Http\Request;
  use Davibennun\LaravelPushNotification\Facades\PushNotification;
  
  use App\Http\Requests;
  
  class TestGCMController extends Controller
  {
    public function index()
    {
      // Change it when device launching sometimes
      $deviceToken = "12345";
  
      $return = PushNotification::app('appNameAndroid')
        -&gt;to($deviceToken)
        -&gt;send('Hello World, i`m a push message');
  
      var_dump($return);
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so when I visit site.com/test_gcm</p>
  
  <p>The var_dump returns:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4uLJZ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4uLJZ.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I am not sure it is successfully or failure. There is no indication in the image.</p>
  
  <p>The android app is from this tutorial: <a href="http://www.androidhive.info/2016/02/android-push-notifications-using-gcm-php-mysql-realtime-chat-app-part-1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.androidhive.info/2016/02/android-push-notifications-using-gcm-php-mysql-realtime-chat-app-part-1/</a>, I am able to get the GCM token, so the app is not working, but I don't receive any notification from the Android phone in emulator.</p>