Idea for Adium iPhone

[Ken Raeburn]

On Oct 17, 2009, at 16:09, Luke the Hiesterman wrote:
> I don't know how well this would actually work in practice. iPhone  
> push notifications display something on the screen on behalf of the  
> client app - they don't actually cause the client app to run. Only  
> the user can launch the client app. That means that the only way to  
> get the actual IM bits in this scenario is to launch the app and the  
> user would just end up getting a bunch of "something happened" push  
> notifications and they must launch the app to know what is the  
> message.

Ahh...  Based on what I see with the AIM client, it looks like it  
shows the user some text, and gives the option of launching the app.   
(Any other options available, or is that it?)  So unless there's some  
additional hidden app data field, I guess the notification couldn't  
effectively be encrypted traffic, but if privacy for the actual  
message content is desired, it could be a simple notification  
"messages available" or "message from JoeSmith available", with the  
app checking in with the user's proxy server if the user decides to  
launch it.

Ken