title: Push Notification from local server
body: <p>I am building my first Android app and need to know how I could use push notification.</p>
  
  <p>My project is a home alarm system and also I have built my own local web server. Now I want to push a notification from my server to my Android app when an alarm appears in my server.</p>
  
  <p>Currently my garage doors use the MyQ app and when the garage door opens or closes I get a notification on my phone, I want to implement the same thing in my app.</p>
  
  <p>I've been reading about the <strong><a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Firebase Cloud Messaging</a></strong> but it seems exceeding my need.</p>