Will GCM Network Manager work on non-Play devices?

Question

As a replacement to JobScheduler for Android prior to 5.0, Google released GCM Network Manager that automatically uses native JobScheduler in Android 5.0 and some custom code for older ones.

However, I am not sure if it works on non-Play devices (those without Google Play Services), like Kindle and Blackberry 10 and China phones. From the name it seems that it has something related to GCM, so I suspect it only works on Play devices.

Can anyone confirm about this?

Answer 1

Of course it needs google play service 7.5.0+ installed on the device,

GcmNetworkManager was added in Google Play Services 7.5.0, so it will not work on older versions. (Announcement blog post here: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-closer-look-at-google-play-services-75.html)