micahlt — 5/10/2022, 3:09:09 AM

Attempting to add notifications to wasteof.mobile - dang, Firebase Cloud Messaging is difficult to work with. I’m going to have to have a central server that keeps track of all the app’s users and their unique messaging ID’s. Which means privacy policies have to be written. Snap.

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scratchtools:

this is such a great idea for such a great social media. i really hope it works out :)

5/11/2022, 2:59:50 AM
micahlt:

Thanks :)

5/11/2022, 4:17:19 AM
oren:

My question is why do you have to connect to some cloud service, you should just be able to send notifications

5/10/2022, 1:55:57 PM
micahlt:

The only official way to send Android notifications when an app is in the background is to use Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging. Otherwise you have to constantly run a background service which is unreliable and not recommended.

5/10/2022, 4:22:35 PM
oren:

Ik but that's a bad way to do it

5/10/2022, 4:26:04 PM
micahlt:

What’s a bad way to do it?

5/10/2022, 4:43:51 PM
oren:

You shouldn't have to register with a cloud service to send notifications, it should be like browser notifications

5/10/2022, 5:17:12 PM
micahlt:

Oh yeah - well, that’s the standard for native mobile apps and it’s just the way things are…

5/11/2022, 4:19:11 AM
biker2000:

Good luck

5/10/2022, 3:10:38 AM
micahlt:

Thank you :)

5/10/2022, 5:01:19 AM