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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:00AM (#26966538)
You can have third party app stores in Android, but you can't have third party push notifications. And without them there is no way to deliver data to your app without making it persistent, which is increasingly difficult with every new Android version
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by anoncake on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:35PM (#26973858)
Nor can alternative stores provide automatic background updates.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by fragileone on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:15AM (#26966644)
Not exactly. There is MQTT, Server Side Events, WebSockets, plus Gotify[1] which has been discussed on HN before.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347848

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:22AM (#26966674)
And how are you going to deliver a message using any of these if the application on a mobile phone is terminated by an operating system?

Check https://dontkillmyapp.com/ for more information.

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