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delduca • today at 5:13 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think Android still uses XMPP to delivery push notifications under the hood

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inputmice • today at 5:22 PM

Indeed. And on a Google-free Android phone the XMPP client Conversations can utilize its existing, permanent XMPP connection to deliver push notifications to other (mostly open-source) apps using an alternative to Google push (FCM) called UnifiedPush.

There was a talk at FOSDEM about that.

https://gultsch.video/w/gRGZqKKvNBvvMesyWNQzoK

daneel_w • today at 7:43 PM

Unless I'm mistaken, Apple's push notifications network ("APN") and a few other macOS/iOS under-the-hood things are also built on top of XMPP.