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You can have third party app stores in Android, but you can't have third party push notifications. And without them there is no way to deliver data to your app
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
You can have third party app stores in Android, but you can't have third party push notifications. And without them there is no way to deliver data to your app without making it persistent, which is increasingly difficult with every new Android version
- fragileone 6y agoNot exactly. There is MQTT, Server Side Events, WebSockets, plus Gotify[1] which has been discussed on HN before. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347848
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoAnd how are you going to deliver a message using any of these if the application on a mobile phone is terminated by an operating system? Check https://dontkillmyapp.com/ https://dontkillmyapp.com/ for more information.
- anoncake 6y agoNor can alternative stores provide automatic background updates.