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Re: If Gmail can, why other apps can't?

 

The notifications don't come from the app. They come from a system
service running in the background, which polls Google to notify you of
new things. The app is not running in the background.


On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 23:17 +0200, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw that even when I close Gmail webapp (that one default installed)
> I'm receiving notifications about new e-mails. How that is done? I
> mean why there is no possibility for now to allow other apps working
> in background, even when we close them (by swype down/up), but Gmail
> webapp can do that? Why Gmail is so special (besides of that most of
> us use it ;) ) to allow do this for it, but it's blocked/not
> implemented for rest of apps?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof Tataradziński
> https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156
> 

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