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Notifications on favorite questions update #10

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It would be great if droidstack will be able to notify user about updates to 
his favorite questions. The StackWrap4J seems to support querying for favorites 
so the feature should be trivial to implement. That can be made optional (i.e. 
add another checkbox preference to the settings activity).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aectann on 28 Aug 2010 at 3:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Also that can be extended to recieve notifications about updates to the user 
questions (asked by the user) and on answers (questions answered by the user).

Original comment by aectann on 28 Aug 2010 at 4:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is not implemented because it would take too many API calls that would 
waste precious bandwidth and battery. Basically, I'd have to poll 
/users/{id}/questions, /users/{id}/favorites and /users/{id}/answers and then 
make a separate call for each changed question. I think that this is cumbersome 
and that this should wait for a newer version of the API.

Also see: http://stackapps.com/questions/1105/user-id-notifications-api-call

Market as WontFix, for now.

Original comment by felix.og...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2010 at 11:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Current workaround could be implementing a server side component (Google 
AppEngine application) which will poll the site for updates and then send push 
notifications to the phone using C2DM.

I understand the limitation of this approach such as the resource limit of the 
AppEngine application, but you could distribute the app so that those who need 
it can install it on their own accounts and configure custom address in the 
DroidStack.

Original comment by sbara...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2010 at 4:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Still WontFix, very un-user friendly solution. Plus, another pretty big 
limitation is that C2DM only works on Android 2.2.

Original comment by felix.og...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2010 at 7:05