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So, there are two reasons not to implement e-mail notifications:
One is that Android does not export that for any application to catch, so I'd
have to
reimplement e-mail checking, which would potentially drain even more battery.
Another is that there are plenty of e-mail checkers for the desktop, which IMHO
defeats the purpose of having the phone check it.
Furthermore, in general the internet connection you use on your computer is
cheaper
than the one you use on your phone, in the sense that many phone data plans
charge
you for bandwidth usage, much more than fixed connections do, so it ends up
being
cheaper to check it from the desktop.
If you have counter-arguments, I'm all ears.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 24 Mar 2010 at 8:06
Nope. Your rationale is flawless. Please disregard this request.
Thanks for taking the time to share.
Original comment by gavin.co...@gmail.com
on 24 Mar 2010 at 8:10
Thank *you* for the feedback, it's always welcome even if we end up not
adressing it for
some reason :)
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 24 Mar 2010 at 8:15
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 7 Apr 2010 at 6:07
Issue 32 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 14 Aug 2010 at 9:37
Issue 51 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 12:25
Issue 52 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 12:28
Dammit! Sorry for the dupe. I totally searched for "email" before I submitted.
Must not have been searching the right thing.
Original comment by gchiacch...@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 12:36
No worries :)
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 12:51
My only valid arguments for email notifications being useful are:
1) all-in-one notifications. With this, notifications can be on every machine
(and OS) so I don't need more than one program to do the same thing. The phone
is *already* doing the check (/running a push server?), so I might as well use
the bandwidth to its fullest.
2) Multiple gmail accounts. I usually end up using my phone for notifications
at work because the chrome extensions (yes multiple) I use can only handle one
account at a time. I'm constantly glancing at my phone to see when I have
personal emails while the notification extension takes care of the more
important work emails.
But as the cons of rewriting the email checker are greater than these pros, it
wouldn't be worth it. However, if you can find anything to hook into these
notifications... That would be awesome. ...or maybe talk with ROM makers
(cyanogen?) to allow hooking into email notifications? :)
Original comment by gchiacch...@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 12:59
If I find a way to catch these notifications I'll definitely add the feature :)
I don't think ROM makers would be interested in changing the Android API, as
that would increase the fragmentation of the platform and make apps
incompatible across different packagings of Android.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 1:10
Yeah...it was a thin hope. Thanks for your responses, though.
Original comment by gchiacch...@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 1:12
Issue 56 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 1:45
My only counter argument is against batter drain, just let people choose to
enable it, same as other notifications...
but thanks for replying to my email. I understand the inherent difficulties,
just hope it becomes possible...
Original comment by JeffClev...@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 1:38
I should also call attention to
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3668
which is exactly what would be needed to get this working the right way.
(please don't post to that bug though, it was clearly filed in the wrong issue
tracker)
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 1:43
Issue 66 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 5:22
Issue 69 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 5:24
Just started using this today and it already saved me from missing an important
call! Thanks.
Another "Pro" for e-mail notifications (and I was going to suggest the option
to be notified of any event that pops into the notification area on the phone
if possible) is separation of work and personal (E-mail and Calendar Events).
When in the office, my phone gets put to the side and it would be nice to have
notifications of the "other" phone events pop onto the screen, that I would not
want resident on the machine (ie e-mail checkers. etc.) I understand the
bandwidth consideration, but it is already getting it on the phone, it is just
displaying it to a new remote location.
I certainly understand if you can not access those notifications that pop onto
the notification area of the phone, but if someday you can, it would be a nice
addition. People can still deselect it if they do not want or need it.
Thanks for the consideration.
Original comment by jim.whet...@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 10:17
Issue 79 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2010 at 11:12
Issue 82 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 12:35
I thought I'd mention that there's still a little hope here - there *are*
broadcasts for both gmail and calendar, but they're undocumented and subject to
change, which means this could be quite fragile if I did implement it.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 12:36
For my own reference, the broadcast receiver for calendar is defined here:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Calendar.git;a=blob;f=An
droidManifest.xml;h=e77ee054b5fd2792bb2b2eaecbfe107237d126e5;hb=HEAD
The gmail app source is not open, though, so I'll have to check whether I can
use it.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 12:39
Issue 95 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 2:39
I am glad there are more people who would like to see other notifications. How
about google voice?
Original comment by findar...@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 3:27
Google Voice has been requested too, and was merged here as well.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 5:32
Issue 86 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 10 Sep 2010 at 5:33
Issue 115 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com
on 11 Sep 2010 at 4:22
Personally, Gmail, Calender (and other events that show up in the notifier)
would be valuable enough to me that I would prefer an option to enable
notifications for undocumented events/broadcasts (maybe as an experimental
feature).
Original comment by angelobe...@gmail.com
on 6 Oct 2010 at 4:58
Hi Rodrigo
thank you for your email and great application.
I understand your reasons and also agree with others and vote for the feature.
Although it looks like it's not going to happen :-)
I thought it would be possible to do it somehow through 3rd party script...
Radek
Original comment by radek.si...@gmail.com
on 8 Mar 2011 at 5:43
just a thought but a simple way to add the feature but not have to worry about
phone drain or catching anything.
Have the desktop client do an email check (desktop to internet), just have an
add email account option screen, login, password and check freq.
i see the problems with adding it to the phone end, and could see how it would
be nice for an "all in one" notification program on the pc personally myself
not too worried about this feature, but this would provide a nice work-around
that makes everyone happy.
Original comment by tristynr...@gmail.com
on 29 Mar 2011 at 12:41
I'd really like notification for email for the simple reason that it would make
it a complete notifier and that the device that i am getting the notification
on to cannot access internet. (cannot use mail client).
Isn't there another way to check? how do widgets access email? if you could
simply read the number of unread emails, sending a notification when there is
more unread mail shouldn't be a problem, should it?
Original comment by bogdanfi...@gmail.com
on 10 Aug 2011 at 9:44
What about just catch ALL notifications?...
so mail is checked by mail app, gmail is checked by gmail.
just like adw's chuck norriz mode or tasker.
Original comment by siriu...@gmail.com
on 7 Nov 2011 at 5:35
I agree, There are apps like Notifier Pro, etc which hook the Android
Notifications and display them in their own Notification UI but still allow
Android to maintain it's Notification Bar, couldn't something like this be
implemented for Android Notifier?
Original comment by dreamcas...@gmail.com
on 5 Dec 2011 at 9:42
I like this program (new android user over here), and even if the discussion is
a bit old, I'd like to get notifications on my PC generated by Any.Do on my
mobile. I'm using the phone tethered to my PC via USB and communication is
"free" :)
From what I understand, not all notifications are created equal, so it may not
be possible to implement in a standard way (too bad!). I'm using android 4.1.
Original comment by adrian.p...@gmail.com
on 7 Jan 2013 at 12:17
I'd like to put some focus on a post I made recently in another (closed) thread
regarding this issue:
https://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/issues/detail?id=88#c7
It is possible to hook into the accessibility options, and receive
notifications that way. All it requires is the app itself to generate a
notification, no app-specific coding required.
Original comment by jelle.sa...@gmail.com
on 11 Jun 2013 at 1:02
That's something I tried to do with Tasker (listen for notifications and
forward them to android-notifier). The setup works perfectly, with one problem.
It seems the tasker variables are not expanded when sent over to
android-notifier (and I just get %variable on my PC screen)...
Original comment by adrian.p...@gmail.com
on 11 Jun 2013 at 2:13
OK, well since this project seems to be dead, I've looked at the code, and it
should be possible to implement all third-party notifications that come up in
the status bar. The accessibility service seems to be what is needed. That
would be the easy part. The hard part would be blacklisting apps which
constantly create notifications (such as an app that updates its notification
every couple of seconds) - that would require a good amount of work, as this
would probably involve creating a new interface, getting a list of all the apps
installed, creating a new database of apps blacklisted or something similar,
etc. Anyway, I'll start working on this in the next while (although I still
have to find the liscencing information), because I haven't found any other
apps that support anything like this over bluetooth. Don't expect anything in
the next week or so, though - it will take time, since time is something I
don't have too much of at the moment...
Original comment by benjamin...@gmail.com
on 25 Nov 2013 at 6:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
gavin.co...@gmail.com
on 24 Mar 2010 at 7:52