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> On Android I think most apps still prefer to keep their own background connection open Many Android apps give the option of using either FCM (Firebase Cloud
by Leonard_of_Q 13d ago
> On Android I think most apps still prefer to keep their own background connection open
Many Android apps give the option of using either FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google's push service), UnifiedPush or polling.
- ezst 13d agoOf note, Conversations and some other XMPP clients can act as UnifiedPush Distributors (i.e. they use their own reliable persistent connection to proxy notifications for other apps). Some mastodon (tusky, fedilab, …), matrix (fluffy chat, element x, …) clients use it¹ ¹: https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/ https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/