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# Firebase Cloud Messaging comes to the Admin Node.js SDK

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## Summary

Firebase's Admin SDKs gained two new capabilities: the Node.js SDK can now send push notifications via Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to devices, device groups, topics, and conditions using the existing app credential, and the Java SDK now supports a full credential interface, including Google Application Default Credentials for auto-discovery on Google infrastructure, replacing the older setServiceAccount() method. Code samples cover sending conditional messages with priority and TTL options, and migrating Java initialization from setServiceAccount() to setCredential().

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## Questions this post answers

### How do I send a push notification via Firebase Cloud Messaging from the Node.js Admin SDK?

Use the admin.messaging methods added to the Firebase Admin Node.js SDK, such as sendToCondition, sendToDevice, or sendToDeviceGroup, no extra setup beyond the existing app credential. For example, admin.messaging.sendToCondition(condition, payload) sends a notification to devices subscribed to matching topics, and you can pass an optional third options argument for priority and timeToLive.

_daily.dev surfaces SDK feature drops like this one for developers building notification flows._

### How do I set message priority and time to live when sending FCM messages from the Admin SDK?

Pass a third options object to any Admin Node.js FCM send method with priority and timeToLive fields, for example priority: 'high' and timeToLive: 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 for a one week expiration. This lets high-urgency notifications, like a game day alert, be dropped after a set window if undelivered.

_Developers tuning notification delivery windows track SDK capabilities like this on daily.dev._

### How do I migrate the Firebase Admin Java SDK from setServiceAccount to setCredential?

Replace the old FirebaseOptions.Builder().setServiceAccount(serviceAccount) call with setCredential(FirebaseCredentials.fromCertificate(serviceAccount)), or use FirebaseCredentials.applicationDefault() to auto-discover credentials on Google App Engine or Compute Engine without managing a service account file. This lets the same code run unchanged across local, staging, and production.

_daily.dev helps backend teams keep up with SDK migration steps like this Java credential change._

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