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title: NowPushSDK class - Android
description: The NowPushSDK class provides the function necessary to create a NowPushService that enables the sending of unsolicited \(push\) notifications to Android devices.Creates a NowPush service.
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# NowPushSDK class- Android

The NowPushSDK class provides the function necessary to create a `NowPushService` that enables the sending of unsolicited \(push\) notifications to Android devices.

**Parent Topic:**[Mobile SDK - Android](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/cllent-mobile-api-reference/MobileSDKAndroidAPI.md)

## NowPushSDK - makePushService\(instanceURL: URL\)

Creates a NowPush service.

|Name|Type|Description|
|----|----|-----------|
|instanceURL|[URL](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/java/net/URL.html)|URL of the ServiceNow instance that the NowPushService should interact with.|

|Type|Description|
|----|-----------|
|Result<NowPushService>|NowPushService object wrapped in a [Kotlin Result object](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-result/).|

This example shows how to setup to makePushService\(\) method to create the Push Service.

```
private var nowPushService: NowPushService? = null

/**
  * Create the NowPushService once in the lifetime of the application inside the Application
  * class or another manager class that will be injected into other classes via dagger/hilt.
  * NowPushService should be created after initializing the NowSDK.
  */
suspend fun getNowPushService(): NowPushService? {
  if (nowPushService != null) return nowPushService

  return NowPushSDK.makePushService(URL("https://instance-name.service-now.com")).getOrThrow()
    .also { this.nowPushService = it }
}
```