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by therealidiot 2217 days ago
Yeah, push notifications are an absolute shitshow.

A standardised push notifications API where you could swap out providers would be such a breath of fresh air.

That being said, the two applications I run that are doing long-polling sockets (Conversations and K-9 Mail) don't really use a lot of power, according to the battery settings screen on my Lineage device