Tadeas Kriz
Background notifications are supported on iOS and this is what the iOS version was using to refresh the app in the background the moment the notification is received, so when the user navigates to the app the content is already fetched. This is what you described in the issue initially and this is what I now also implemented for the cordova version.

I guess what you mean is that you don't want to see the notification in the client app at all, you only want the list to reload? Like you do for you devconf app? On android I could reload the list if the app is in the foreground and on the list view, but navigating to the contact that was added is also not bad user experience in IMO. I've not changed this to 'just' refresh the list because it will have to do it when the application is in the foreground and it will not be the most appropriate thing to do in all circumstances. For instance when the user is currently creating a new contact.