so do any mastodon mobile apps do push notifications yet?
i'm using mastalab rn and i'm pretty sure it only does pull notifications? i don't see any of the other apps mentioning that they do push and i reckon that's something they'd be bragging about if they had it? hmm
@porsupah gasp!! that's what i get for steadfastly ignoring all mastodon apps that aren't open source i guess
hm. it sounds like they're achieving those push notifications in a rather unscrupulous way, idk if i'm comfortable with that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=club.tootdon.app&reviewId=gp%3AAOqpTOECIq7GPE1vLgeG5UtpxeWIZQ49hJvmKp6WYI7EIdeq4P5Y2Q2O90Z8MCthUaoG4GYRLHxZlSImMo2Uwkg
@00dani Wouldn't that be required for the function?
@porsupah i don't think so? it MIGHT be necessary for the actual notifications to go thru tootdon servers to be delivered (e.g., instance -> webhook -> tootdon -> your phone) but that should be entirely achievable without giving them your whole access token :/
@porsupah and actually, you don't need the notifications' content to go thru their servers either! it'll work just as well if you send an empty "ping" as a push notification and have the app pull down the actual content locally, which is apparently what amaroq does
amaroq is ios-exclusive sadly tho
@00dani I'm pretty sure Mastalab actually does push notifications? Can confirm Tootdon definitely does however. I believe Pawoo also seems to, and Subway Tooter seems to have the option buried in here somewhere.
@sky hmm, my mastalab notifications always seem to arrive in delayed batches, as though it's just pulling them every few minutes :/ maybe it's my instance at fault or something, idk
@00dani Not sure! I'm definitely not a technical user but when I installed it it asked me which toots I wanted to receive Push Notifications for, and after a look through the settings I couldn't find any options for setting a pull interval.
@sky hmm. did you install mastalab from f-droid or from google play? because it just occurred to me that the f-droid version might not support push notifications, since a lot of android apps use google cloud messaging for that :o
@00dani I have the Google Play version, that would make sense.
@sky hm. there goes that idea. i definitely AM a technical user so i checked mastalab's source code for any use of google cloud messaging (or its replacement, firebase cloud messaging) and nada :/
hmmmmmm
@00dani A mystery... I guess at least Firefox Mobile gives me pretty consistent notifs from the web UI, so that might be an option? I personally find it a bit more clunky than an app but.
@00dani i use the progressive web app (add to desktop) and it works AMAZINGLY for this kind of stuff. haven't looked into other native apps though sorry :(
@nightpool !!!! the pwa provides push notifications???? gasp...... that's brilliant
@00dani yes it does!!! web notifications are the future baby
@00dani Tootdon appears to do so. ^_^