actually, google does now offer push service. Somebody needs to do that work (and host an intermediary server).
On 12 September 2015 at 00:44, 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 > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
