title: Can you send info to an application without showing the notification in the status bar using GCM?
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out a way to send data from a server to a particular android device having my app.so i came across Google cloud messaging service. i wanted to know if its possible to directly send information to my application on a phone from a php web application without showing a notification in the status bar? from all the examples Ive seen, it looks like a push notification is always sent. i would just like my app to directly receive the data without showing any push notification.is it possible? any help is gratefully accepted.</p>