Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months agoI’m pretty sure the point of this is that the official iMessage servers are the notification server.
Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months agoI’m pretty sure the point of this is that the official iMessage servers are the notification server.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sort of.
All messages/etc are sent using iMessage encryption directly between your phone and Apple’s iMessage servers.
But there is no Android push notifications from Apple’s servers.
So in order to be notified about new messages in a timely manner without killing your battery/data plan a cloud server is required to trigger your phone that a message has arrived so your phone can then request the message from Apple’s servers.
This is actually a really common implementation, many apps use Firebase or similar to handle push notifications that are only used to trigger a “pull” of a larger chunk of data.