Notices by UnifiedPush (unifiedpush@fosstodon.org)

If you're using UnifiedPush to get push notifications because you can't use the Play Services, we'd be happy to ear from you!

It may be because they aren't available in your region, they weren't included in your phone or because your Android version is too old to be supported.

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#UnifiedPush #Android

Good news! Next release of Fennec browser will support UnifiedPush. And IronFox plan to do it as well!

You'll be able to receive push notifications for many more apps if you're not using Play services, thanks to web apps.

#Android #UnifiedPush #FennecFDroid #IronFox #Firefox

**Push notifications for decentralized services**

How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations.

https://unifiedpush.org/news/20250131_push_for_decentralized/

#UnifiedPush #Webpush #decentralization

The migration to @Codeberg is now done ! 🎉

All the repositories are mirrored to github and all the CI have been updated.

Next versions of the libraries will be on mavenCentral.

Thanks @nlnet for giving time to do these small but important tasks 🙏

#UnifiedPush

This week, next gen @element client, Element-X, and @neochat announced they are supporting #UnifiedPush. This makes 2 more @matrix clients supporting it !

NeoChat the second Linux app officially supporting UnifiedPush, after @tokodon

#matrix

In addition, we strongly advise developers to encrypt their push notifications, recommending #WebPush [*] or to adopt a sync-on-push strategy (which is what Signal does).

[*] Follow RFC8291, forget about the old draft protocol abandoned 7 years ago!

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned : https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

That's why it's important to offer your users alternatives.

#PushNotifications

SmallTalk is a minimal, modern, friends and family focused Android messenger. Heavily inspired by Whatsapp and Signal, powered by Matrix.

Its goals are to be reliable and stable, and have a tiny app size.

It recently started supporting UnifiedPush, and publishing beta releases on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dapk.st
And the IzzySoft F-Droid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.dapk.st

You can find out more about it at https://github.com/ouchadam/small-talk

#matrix #messenger #chat #android #app #UnifiedPush #smalltalk