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With today's update I dare say Voyager is now better than Apollo was (i.ibb.co)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
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User tags are going to be so useful. Keep up the good work, @aeharding@vger.social!

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think lemmy doesn't currently support push notifications so the app would have to stay awake in the background to check for them

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You don’t need to have the app running in the background. Notifications can be pushed from the cloud.

    Problem is, that costs money to host and run that job to check for notifications. This is why a lot of small developers end up burying notifications behind a paywall.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean yeah, but hosting and running a voyager server that stores our login credentials would be a more complicated and difficult option for what gain? The simplest solution would probably be just waking up the app every so often to check, I think eternity does that

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Speaking for iOS, I don’t believe this is possible. iOS has rules around what background processes can and can’t run on-device.

    For notifications coming from the internet, in order to preserve battery life, Apple wants cloud APNs to wake up terminated apps to deliver notifications.

    I know android does some similar battery preservation stuff around notifications, but I’m a little less familiar with that.

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