sky⁉️✨ is a user on lgbt.io. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse. If you don't, you can sign up here.

so do any mastodon mobile apps do push notifications yet?

i'm using mastalab rn and i'm pretty sure it only does pull notifications? i don't see any of the other apps mentioning that they do push and i reckon that's something they'd be bragging about if they had it? hmm

@00dani I'm pretty sure Mastalab actually does push notifications? Can confirm Tootdon definitely does however. I believe Pawoo also seems to, and Subway Tooter seems to have the option buried in here somewhere.

@sky hmm, my mastalab notifications always seem to arrive in delayed batches, as though it's just pulling them every few minutes :/ maybe it's my instance at fault or something, idk

@00dani Not sure! I'm definitely not a technical user but when I installed it it asked me which toots I wanted to receive Push Notifications for, and after a look through the settings I couldn't find any options for setting a pull interval.

@sky hmm. did you install mastalab from f-droid or from google play? because it just occurred to me that the f-droid version might not support push notifications, since a lot of android apps use google cloud messaging for that :o

sky⁉️✨ @sky

@00dani I have the Google Play version, that would make sense.

@sky hm. there goes that idea. i definitely AM a technical user so i checked mastalab's source code for any use of google cloud messaging (or its replacement, firebase cloud messaging) and nada :/

hmmmmmm

@00dani A mystery... I guess at least Firefox Mobile gives me pretty consistent notifs from the web UI, so that might be an option? I personally find it a bit more clunky than an app but.