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Official Android app for Mastodon
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[Feature]: passing ntfy notifation integration #735

Closed Today20092 closed 11 months ago

Today20092 commented 11 months ago

Description

I think it would be great for the android version of the app to have ntfy integration, because I don't believe ntfy works with ios, but it says to add feature requests here.

Ntfy is a push notification feature that allows you to recieve push notifications without using Google services.

Suggested Solution

Add integration with unified push and ntfy as the distributor.

https://unifiedpush.org/users/faq/#what-are-push-notifications

Alternatives

No response

Additional Context

Matrix protocol client, Element, has the feature integrated in their app. If you have ntfy installed on Android then you can set ntfy as the push notifation server and it works automatically. For android users, this allows for saving battery life because you're only listening on one connection

grishka commented 11 months ago

This requires server support, doesn't it?

FineFindus commented 11 months ago

Not really, Unified Push uses Web Push, which is already partially supported by the Mastodon server. Unfortunately, it still uses an older version of the protocol, so the received notification cannot be decrypted on the client side. This can be partially mitigated by using the API to request the notifications.

See https://github.com/sk22/megalodon/pull/749 for an initial implementation in a fork. I'd be happy to upstream it if you'd like.

Today20092 commented 11 months ago

Not really, Unified Push uses Web Push, which is already partially supported by the Mastodon server. Unfortunately, it still uses an older version of the protocol, so the received notification cannot be decrypted on the client side. This can be partially mitigated by using the API to request the notifications.

See sk22#749 for an initial implementation in a fork. I'd be happy to upstream it if you'd like.

Hey that's awesome. I just downloaded megladon and ima try it out. How long did it take you to integrate the unified push in your pull request?