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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://unifiedpush.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know about that but afaik almost nobody uses it. The only app I know that supports it is Mercurygram which is a Telegram client.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does Element and Signal implement push notifications?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Idk about Element but Signal uses the Google's insecure implementation if the device has gapps installed and it uses the traditional system which is not push if gapps are not installed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay, thanks for the insight. I don't have Gapps (MicroG or otherwise), so I do wonder how these services deliver their notifications.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If it's not using GCM then it must be long polling, unless signal servers are set up to use a 3rd form of push (APNS for iOS, GCM for Android)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Molly (a hardened Signal mobile client fork) has a UnifiedPush version.