What is UnifiedPush?
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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I think it's sending push notifications not using google play
Technologically, there's a little more to it than only that, but, in practice, that's essentially what it does.
What service does it use? Or is it just a standard for using your own?
Had to look it up too, looks like a way to choose your own push service:
Choose and host yourself. For me the latter part is half the battle.
I've used UP for months with regular element and other apps. Works perfectly fine via ntfy. Excited to see more apps using it.
Sorry, but I'm using Lineage OS without Gapps and everything goes good, any notifications works in Element .... 🤔
You are forgiven. Element constantly runs a worker to check for new messages on the FOSS version (depending on your configuration), unlike PUSH which just sits idle and listen for new messages.
Shouldn't this use more battery? When i switched to Lineage my battery lasted longer 😅
Some say "yes, by a lot". In my experience a 10 seconds fetch rate on apps costs only a few percentages of battery per charge if the fetch is reasonably sane. Checking 75 podcast feeds with thousands of episodes every 10 minutes isn't sane.
I have tested and got better battery on Lineage/Clean ROMs as compared with stock as well. I put it down to bloat and spyware constantly running in the background with elevated priviledge. 🤷♂️
F-Droid ver. with Optimization,
Yes, the optimization is setting up how often the app and phone should wake up and check with your matrix server if there's any new messages.
Too bad neochat has been crashing on startup for months 😅