I have signal on my main account and sandboxed GPS on an alt for anything that won't work without Google play (NFCU, YouTube, etc). I'll get notifications when I'm on the main and then when I go over to the alt to watch YouTube or something sometimes I'll get notifications from signal but more often I'll need to switch to my main and open signal to see I've got like 15 missed messages. I allow signal to run in the background and have added it as an exception to always keep permissions. What am I missing? This is a no-fail task for me. I need to be able to get notifications reliably across accounts in order to justify making the switch to graphene
push notifications don't update on their own
I've been having the same issues for about a month. The only difference between us is I only use one profile.
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MethRaptor Did you install Google Play services before Signal, or did you first install Signal and then Google Play services? I ask because if you install Play services first and then Signal, even if you remove Play services later, Signal is still dependent on it.
On the other hand, if you install Signal first, it will set up its own background process. While I haven't tested it personally, I believe Signal's own background process will only work on active profiles and may stop if you switch user profiles.
No signal got installed through aurora and a whole separate profile was created for sandboxed Google services. So as far as signal saw, Google services never existed
Privacy you'd think androids open source push notifications system would be functional enough to be used reliably here
MethRaptor you'd think androids open source push notifications system would be functional enough to be used reliably here
Is there one? It seems as if there are many: https://medevel.com/15-os-push-notification/
de0u I thought there was just firebase. Holy shit!
Well now I'm curious how easy installing these are
MethRaptor It's not that simple. The developers of the app you are using have to explicitly add support for that push notification service.
- FCM using Google Play Services is supported by almost all apps.
- Some apps have their own implementation of push notifications, e.g. using websocket, usually as a fallback
- A few apps work with UnifiedPush for push notifications