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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, Google doesn't provide push notifications for Ubuntu (yet anyway).
It's being checked in accounts-polld.

Push notifications and accounts-polld are quite different things.


On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 22:35 +0000, Gran PC wrote:
> It looks like the Gmail webapp has a server-side counterpart to it
> that receives your emails and sends them to your device using Ubuntu's
> normal push notification service (which anyone can
> use): https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/platform/guides/push-notifications-server-guide/
> 
> 
> This is also in use in some other apps like Twitter; it doesn't mean
> the app is running in the background constantly, it's just using polld
> to receive notifications.
> 
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:18 PM Krzysztof Tataradziński
> <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> 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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