Push Notification provider choice (UnifiedPush)

[alien999999999]

It would be great to have a checkbox under allow Push Notifications, that would use UnifiedPush (you should probably mention that you need to install a specific app though)

[Viish]

I'll leave the issue open with the "feature request" tag but clearly this won't be done soon.

[alien999999999]

i understand, but this could relieve a lot of support questions on push notifications, as you wouldn't have to go through the google servers, with its api key requirements for the pusher

[1223421]

Please do this, for the f-droid version it is very necessary... linphone is the latest application using google apps for me

[alien999999999]

Any progress on this? this issue does seem to have a few people who want this, and independance from google would be great, but atm, I switched to sipnetic

[Viish]

Any progress on this?

No, this isn't on our roadmap for the time being.

[lnpn23121]

Google is blocked in some countries, without this feature, push notification can't be used, so it's not just for people who choose to avoid using Google, it's also for people who can't use Google. You could use ntfy for testing so you don't need to set up the push notification server.

[Viish]

@lnpn23121 We have a "background mode" for Android that can be used when push are unavailable that works quite well.

[anaxonda]

@lnpn23121 We have a "background mode" for Android that can be used when push are unavailable that works quite well.

Background mode has quite high battery use, right?

[Viish]

@anaxonda obviously the battery cost is higher than not having the app alive at all times but it's not that high, we have made multiple changes to keep it to a minimum.

[alien999999999]

the biggest problem with that is that there's a bunch of phones that just destroy background apps :-(