Idea for Adium iPhone
Jesse Armand
mnemonic.fx at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 09:59:29 UTC 2010
Another options are sounds and badges using numbers.
Push notifications as we had seen in other apps are collected, and it
won't be gone until the user opens the app or a new notification is
coming. It doesn't matter which notifications are displayed, as long
it's displaying something. The user will know what is going on in the
app when it's opened, that's not a problem.
I actually like the idea of building Adium server, so it could be used
by various clients in any platform. Many Multi-IM services have been
doing this. But, I really don't know if it could be executed for
Adium.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Ken Raeburn <raeburn at raeburn.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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