ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[John Lenton <john.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

actually, google does now offer push service. Somebody needs to do
that work (and host an intermediary server).

On 12 September 2015 at 00:44, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>         --
>>         Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone
>>         Post to     : ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>         Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone
>>         More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>
> --
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone
> Post to     : ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>