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Create Android notifications from Tasks
To improve the follow through for users it would be beneficial to pass alerts about a Task as an Android notifications. Otherwise we need to rely on the user opening the app to see the tasks.
This may need to be configurable as a different type of task, or could be pulled from known information about existing tasks. Otherwise it could be a generic Android notification to open their app if they haven't opened it in several days.
We should evaluate https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notifications_API/Using_the_Notifications_API for this feature; it may be possible to achieve notifications with little to no custom code in the container.
Removed from the milestones since this is not a requirement for the field test.
Looks like this isn't a requirement, so closing until someone asks for it. @sglangevin and @diannakane if that's wrong please reopen.
A project is now using SMS to act as push notifications, so would be worth discussing the priority of this feature and scheduling accordingly (if at all).
So far this feature hasn't been prioritized since CHW workflows generally include opening their apps weekly or daily -- in which case they'd see their tasks. If projects are using SMS as a workaround it may be since that is not always the case or no longer sufficient. Aside from the tasks use case, this feature could also facilitate messaging between users since they'd want to be notified of the message even if their app is closed.