How to interpret results returned by ACS Push Notifications in Android

After I successfully implemented push notifications for one of my ios projects yesterday, imoved on to android. After some initial troubles (it's very different from ios), I am finally able to push messages to the android app. Not only the implementation is different from ios, the format of the returned object is also completely different. In iOS, i am able to format the message properly (i.e. removing the annoying alert text) by using JSON.stringify(e.data.alert) . That of course doesn't work for android. Specifically, the following is the format returned without using JSON.stringify:

{bubbles = false,
     payload = {
        "android": {"icon": "alert",
                "alert": "This is a test message body",
                "title": "This is the test Title"
                }
            },
     source=ti.cloudpush.CloudpushModule@42df9f00,
     type = callback,
    cancelBubble = false}

Would be most grateful if anyone can advice how to get to the alert part, i.e. trimming all before and including alert. And whether JSON.stringify is needed. So far, I could e.payload to avoid bulk of the text in front, but ultimately i'd like to just get the alert part out to alert user.

Many thanks in advance.