[Aerogear-users] Unified Push Server - Anyway to delete notifications when in background?

[Rob Willett]

Erik,

Thats interesting. We hadn’t seen that happening at all. I 
specifically tested this yesterday when testing UPS.

We’ll test again

Rob

On 25 Nov 2015, at 13:19, Erik Jan de Wit wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
>> You (or Corrine) have correctly identified the pitfalls regarding
>> background and foreground. There is one other case and thats when the 
>> app
>> is not actually started up. We still want to send them notifications 
>> (at
>> least for a while) alerting them to traffic issues. After a day or 
>> so,
>> we’ll throttle back these notifications but at least for a few 
>> hours or a
>> day, we need to send them out. We can’t use the content-available 
>> flag as
>> the app isn’t running (in either bg or fg) to handle the flag. So 
>> we have
>> to try to work out if the app is ‘alive’ or not, if the app is 
>> not alive we
>> send down full-fat notifications, this means no content-available 
>> flag and
>> full information to be displayed in the notification drawer.
>>
> I think that when your app is not started the OS should start your app 
> when
> the notification arrives, so that it can handle it. It could be that 
> the
> app is not started because the device is low on power or there are 
> some
> heuristics as to how often the app is used, that might come in play as
> well. But generally speaking a background notification should start 
> the app
> as well.
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