Anyone aware of a conversations fork with support for unified push notifications? Or a similar xmpp android app with omemo (just the same as conversations’ support) and unified push notifications support, available through the official f-droid repor or a f-droid repo if not available from the official ones?

BTW, I noticed !xmpp@lemmy.ml community was locked. Any particular reason for that?

Also, Converstions requests to set unrestricted use of battery, to use battery under background without restrictions. So it seems unified push notifications would help, though this github issue sort of indicates unified push notifications wouldn’t help, so it just tells me there’s no intention to include support for it on Conversations, but not that it wouldn’t help save battery.

  • poVoqA
    3•3 months ago

    There is a tutorial here: https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/service/unifiedpush/

    Basically there is no more efficient way to do it than via XMPP, FCM is also an XMPP service. So the best is really to use Conversations as an UP end-point to get notifications from other apps. AFAIK it doesn’t use a websocket, but a native xmpp connection for it, which is even more efficient.

    The reason Conversations also supports FCM is that some Android phone vendors are extremely aggressive in putting apps into sleep mode and only FCM notifications work reliably on those.

    • @kixik@lemmy.mlOP
      1•3 months ago

      ohh, I see, is there a setting, besides unrestricted battery use, one can should set as well then? I remember another about background use, but can’t seem to find it…

      This is the first post that clarifies why there’s no need for unified push notifications, but still conversations supports GCM/FCM push notifications. I seem though for those phones unified push notifications would help, the same way GCM/FCM does? At any rate, for battery purposes I got it’s not required.

      Many thanks !

      • poVoqA
        2•3 months ago

        Sadly these phones kill any app like nfty that tries to receive the UP notifications as well. Only the official system notifications that go through GCM/FCM are privileged and not affected by that.