That makes a lot more sense. I didn't think Google did push notifications, I just assumed it was a server at Canonical polling my inbox and then sending push notifications as a temporary stopgap, like BlackBerry used to do.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:44 AM Rodney Dawes <[email protected]> wrote: > No, Google doesn't provide push notifications for Ubuntu (yet anyway). > It's being checked in accounts-polld. > > Push notifications and accounts-polld are quite different things. > > > On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 22:35 +0000, Gran PC wrote: > > It looks like the Gmail webapp has a server-side counterpart to it > > that receives your emails and sends them to your device using Ubuntu's > > normal push notification service (which anyone can > > use): > https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/platform/guides/push-notifications-server-guide/ > > > > > > This is also in use in some other apps like Twitter; it doesn't mean > > the app is running in the background constantly, it's just using polld > > to receive notifications. > > > > > > Cheers. > > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:18 PM Krzysztof Tataradziński > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I saw that even when I close Gmail webapp (that one default > > installed) I'm receiving notifications about new e-mails. How > > that is done? I mean why there is no possibility for now to > > allow other apps working in background, even when we close > > them (by swype down/up), but Gmail webapp can do that? Why > > Gmail is so special (besides of that most of us use it ;) ) to > > allow do this for it, but it's blocked/not implemented for > > rest of apps? > > > > > > Best regards, > > Krzysztof Tataradziński > > https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156 > > > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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