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Re:Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the ma... by the_duke on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:43AM (#22336266)
Do you know what the deal is with the constantly present "Listening for events" notification with RiotX?

Is this to work around the Android background task auto-killing?

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Re:Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the ma... by MayeulC on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:01PM (#22336770)
IIRC, apps that stay alive in the background have to use that persistent notification. It doesn't happen if you can rely on push notifications, though. I do not use google services (f-droid version), so I was expecting to see that, but do you see it as well if using them?

Note that you can hide the notification by long-pressing it.

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