Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App

• SirQuack@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not about the store, it’s about the notification.

  As mentioned in the Time article:

  the app is not available on Android because it “requires a device ID in order to send push notifications, which requires a user account and a password.”

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ntfy.sh

    There are ways around that

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t need a user account or password to receive a push notification.

    You just need to have the app installed and it can then be configured to receive push notifications.

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    • SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the developer needs a device ID for that. Which is their objection: www.iceblock.app/android

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How do you suppose APNS knows which device to deliver the notification to?

        Something that… links it to the device? Like, a unique ID that Apple can identify?

        It sounds like he thinks HE has to store this information, which is simply incorrect. It will obviously be stored by Google in Firebase, and by Apple wherever that gets stored.

        I write apps for a living. I have users subscribe and unsubscribe to channels, and at no point is there a user account with password involved in either iOS or Android.

        If you want the memory of which channels they have subscribed to to persist across uninstall/reinstalls or different devices, then yes, but for an app like this you don’t need to persist those settings.

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  • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its totally possible to send notification without having user account, see firebase.

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something lime that.

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• SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks, but I’m not the developer of the app so that’s not really relevant for me.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i don’t think this other commenter was calling you out. i think they were just bringing up a point of discussion that’s relevant to the point you brought up

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