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[Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>]

So if I good understand, that Gmail is asking Ubuntu OS and sending some
data to Google and get some other back, even when primary app is closed?
Yes?
I'm thinking about Activity Tracker - is there a possibility to do similar
thing with GPS data? I mean that app will ask Ubuntu OS for location, even
when screen is off (and app is not in foreground) - is that possible for
now or does Canonical working on it?

Best regards,
Krzysztof Tataradziński
https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156

2015-09-12 4:20 GMT+02:00 James Henstridge <james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 12 September 2015 at 07:46, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That makes a lot more sense. I didn't think Google did push
>> notifications, I just assumed it was a server at Canonical polling my inbox
>> and then sending push notifications as a temporary stopgap, like BlackBerry
>> used to do.
>>
>
> That is correct.  The account-polld daemon is intended as an interim
> solution to provide notifications for some commonly used services at a time
> when we lack the market share to get Facebook, Twitter, etc to engineer
> Ubuntu specific solutions.  If any of those services decided to add support
> for Ubuntu push notifications, the corresponding code in account-polld
> would likely be removed.
>
> For any anything new, the push notification service is recommended.
>
> James.
>
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