The official announcement was mentioned in Matrix’s blog post:
Next release 0.4.2 should also be published on F-Droid with push support using UnifiedPush.
In other news, thanks to Joshua, NeoChat now supports push notifications based on UnifiedPush.
Interestingly, the Element X issue regarding implementing UnifiedPush, has not been updated, and there is no related merge request that I can find. NeoChat appears to have their changes buried in merge requests.
What is UnifiedPush?
I think it’s sending push notifications not using google play
Technologically, there’s a little more to it than only that, but, in practice, that’s essentially what it does.
What service does it use? Or is it just a standard for using your own?
UnifiedPush, itself, is just the standard; services like Ntfy then implement it.
Had to look it up too, looks like a way to choose your own push service:
Choose and host yourself. For me the latter part is half the battle.
Too bad neochat has been crashing on startup for months 😅
I’ve used UP for months with regular element and other apps. Works perfectly fine via ntfy. Excited to see more apps using it.
Sorry, but I’m using Lineage OS without Gapps and everything goes good, any notifications works in Element … 🤔
You are forgiven. Element constantly runs a worker to check for new messages on the FOSS version (depending on your configuration), unlike PUSH which just sits idle and listen for new messages.
Shouldn’t this use more battery? When i switched to Lineage my battery lasted longer 😅
Some say “yes, by a lot”. In my experience a 10 seconds fetch rate on apps costs only a few percentages of battery per charge if the fetch is reasonably sane. Checking 75 podcast feeds with thousands of episodes every 10 minutes isn’t sane.
I have tested and got better battery on Lineage/Clean ROMs as compared with stock as well. I put it down to bloat and spyware constantly running in the background with elevated priviledge. 🤷♂️
F-Droid ver. with Optimization,
Yes, the optimization is setting up how often the app and phone should wake up and check with your matrix server if there’s any new messages.
Great in combination with xmpp: https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/service/unifiedpush/
