How is the max length of a message with GCM?

Question

I am sending notifications over GCM in PHP and I dont know the max length of the message that I can send

Thanks guys!

have you tried [Google](http://www.google.com) yet? – panini Mar 30 '14 at 22:58 — panini, Mar 30 '14 at 22:58
yes but it says in kb but I need the lenght in characters – benoffi7 Mar 30 '14 at 23:00 — benoffi7, Mar 30 '14 at 23:00
and also taks about the lenght of the registration id – benoffi7 Mar 30 '14 at 23:03 — benoffi7, Mar 30 '14 at 23:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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In UTF-8, characters need between 1 and 4 bytes. So, you can store between 1024 and 4096 UTF-8 characters in 4KB.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Mar 30 '14 at 23:24

Garbit

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