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JakeLane
Proper notifications (and messaging)
Facebook recently added support for desktop notifications. This possibly could be utilised to have a real notification service.
What kind of notifications are you trying to implement? My app, Folio supports notifications. Maybe you can use the code I have? With it users can receive regular and message notifications.
I was hoping to use the Facebook desktop notifications because it would be true push notifications akin to the official app. I've done a bit of research and have found that they do use GCM. I would like to work out how to hook into that but it may be impossible due to their server encapsulation.
OK. Is there an api for this? Opera mini does this well and I've been looking into push notifications as well. Either way, if you'd like.. I can help with the current implementation I have worked out. I'm sure you'll improve it :-).
I'm unfortunately quite busy with an upcoming exam right now but I think a RSS implementation would be the easiest solution at the moment.
When I get some time, I'll definitely have to checkout your implementation. From what I've heard about Folio, it must be very good!
Thanks so much for the help!
Does this notify on messages as well? This code looks interesting.
Unfortunately no, just the notification RSS feed. If I were to try to implement messaging, I think I'd try to parse a page instead of RSS. Possibly even one of Facebook's 'lite' sites.
@JakeLane , take a look at the notifications I'm using. I'm sure you can adjust it to include message notifications like I have.
https://gist.github.com/creativetrendsapps/da211dd75cfb4af4cb79
So is it working or no, because i get no notifications at all from toffeed (and yes the background notifications are enabled with interval 5 minutes) and it is very sad as it was a good alternative to those fat facebook apps
Facebook has removed the RSS notification feature so Toffeed notifications will not work. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time or motivation to fix this as I am working full time at an internship. I may in the future completely rewrite the app in Kotlin as I have improved a fair bit as a developer since developing this app. So apologies for the non-working state of the app, I suggest you seek other alternative Facebook wrapper apps for notification support.
I'm sorry, but this app seems being the best. I tried ALL from F-Droid, and this was best one suiting my needs :/ I'm waiting for rewrite! ;D
@JakeLane are you going to rewrite the app in Kotlin? I can get notifications working for you before then if you'd like.
@creativetrendsapps I'll probably give it a try during my Winter break but that'll really depend on whether I'm working then. I really appreciate the offer but I don't want you to spend time on something I mightn't get time to work on.
My plan is to have MIT licence on a modular core library so people can reuse code in their apps and I'll write the frontend with the GNU licence to stop copies. I love open-source but it's disheartening to see copies with ads on the play store. Let me know if there are any features you'd like me to investigate, R&D is fun and will keep me motivated haha.