[aerogear-dev] Modularization and Push

[Miguel Lemos]

+"disable push notifications"  +"battery life" +"android" > Google, for
instance (I presume you use this).

There are also several companies clamming that their push notifications
services (including geo-fencing) drain less battery, etc., etc.


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:

> 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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