[aerogear-dev] Modularization and Push

[Bruno Oliveira]

Miguel, do you have any references? If there are hundreds posts about it, I
would love to read.


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Miguel Lemos <miguel21op at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's not the experience we have... There are hundreds (thousands?) of
> posts about this matter. There are several strategies to keep the processor
> alive to do its work and Android (using GCM) minimizes the overload, it's
> more or less a consensual idea. You'll find in the Internet several
> articles about this too.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>>  On 04/01/2014 09:22 AM, Miguel Lemos wrote:
>>
>> ?! I can do it worse: uninstall the app because it drains the battery.
>>
>> Push messages don't drain the battery that much.  They all come in over
>> the GCM socket which is refresh every 15 minutes or so.
>>
>> Keeping an open socket doesn't drain the battery that badly.  IN a
>> (contrived) experiment I had a socket which sent a packet every 5 minutes
>> to the device.  Over the course of 5 hours the app didn't even register on
>> things which had drained the battery.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/31/2014 02:03 PM, Miiguel Lemos wrote:
>>> > Using the GCM for push notifications has a very important advantage:
>>> it minimizes the battery consumption, since it reduces the processor
>>> overload, it's not needed to open a socket to check the server on a regular
>>> basis, etc. In my opinion this a critical matter, minimizing the
>>> probability of the user turning the notifications off.
>>>  On Android you can't turn notifications off in the same way as iOS.
>>>  >
>>> >
>>> > Enviado do meu iPad
>>> >
>>> > No dia 31/03/2014, às 18:51, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
>>> escreveu:
>>> >
>>> >> I would vote for A
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> abstractj
>>> >>
>>> >> On March 31, 2014 at 10:59:01 AM, Summers Pittman (
>>> supittma at redhat.com) wrote:
>>> >>>> Y'all,
>>> >>> So there has been some concerns with the complexity of the build
>>> >>> especially where including the Google GCM (push) libraries
>>> >>> are
>>> >>> concerned. Additionally there have been some requests for a
>>> >>> separate
>>> >>> "push" module which won't need the full aerogear android library.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The full modularization of the library along with several other
>>> >>> improvements is scheduled for the "2.0" epic.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> So my question is a) Should we make a 2.0 which is only the
>>> >>> modularization sooner and iterate on that a few times before
>>> >>> we include
>>> >>> our improvements in a 3.0 or b) Should we create a "fork" project
>>> >>> which
>>> >>> is only a push module? This new project will get merged back into
>>> >>> the
>>> >>> main project when we have our complete modularizations.
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