I am following the tutorial at: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/mobile/firebase-app-engine-android-studio
I have everything working and the email is sending every
Your question is actually a question about AppEngine and how to create a Servlet that starts automatically and automatically performs some initialization.
You will want to keep manual scaling on, but follow the steps here: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appconfig#using_a_load-on-startup_servlet
for setting up your listeners on init() instead of an http request. What you are trying is definitely possible and have seen it run elsewhere.