Use Unified Push as Push Provider

[schnuppikarotti]

Is there an existing request for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Feature description

Would be a nice feature for the FOSS-Version to Support https://unifiedpush.org

[Ammako]

Consider #74

This is something that upstream would have to do, I'm afraid.

Also UnifiedPush/wishlist#8 for more

Unfortunately I don't see it happening any time soon :/

signalapp/Signal-Android#12490
signalapp/Signal-Android#9729 (comment)

[p1gp1g]

FYI, I am using molly with UnifiedPush for a month now. It requires a software running on a server. (The server does not have any crypto key, so the encryption is not broken)

I will give more details, publish the server code and open a PR for Molly as soon as it is ready for testing. Then some testers will be very welcome. Also that the first time I write some rust, any rust reviewer will be welcome too :)

[genofire]

hmm, have not write much in rust and have not much time.

I will host an server (in my k8s), after i build an container and helmchart.

[ilikenwf]

FYI, I am using molly with UnifiedPush for a month now. It requires a software running on a server. (The server does not have any crypto key, so the encryption is not broken)

I will give more details, publish the server code and open a PR for Molly as soon as it is ready for testing. Then some testers will be very welcome. Also that the first time I write some rust, any rust reviewer will be welcome too :)

Any news on this? Sounds interesting and a lot less convoluted than using Matrix...

[p1gp1g]

It can now (*) begin to be reviewed and tested. It still misses a few things (like replacing the shared preferences by the internal store, implementing alerts for edge cases for a specific setup and adding readmes) but this can be done during the tests and review.

(*) I will very probably publish everything this week

[ilikenwf]

Very cool!

Have you done any battery benchmarking between push vs websocket?

[p1gp1g]

Not really, I do not have a lot of contact on Signal so it is not very relevant. Also, I have only tested one of the 2 fetch strategies implemented. That's why testers are very welcomed: we should compare the battery consumption with the 2 strategies and without UnifiedPush (with FCM or with the websocket).

[p1gp1g]

The PR is now opened and I've published the server code.

[mpelley92]

Just wondering if there has been any progress with this in the past 3 months. I'm using Molly FOSS due to having no Google Play framework and it easily pulls 20% a day from my usage just for notifications. Would be pretty awesome to have Unified Push implemented on the server side of Signal (if anyone here has any influence there) and then supported by Molly.

Thanks for everyone involved in the testing process.

[julianfoad]

Just a note that activity on this is taking place in the linked merge request #152 . We can follow it there. (Hurray!)

[valldrac]

This is already done. Officially supported since version 6.35.3-1.

[ilikenwf]

This is already done. Officially supported since version 6.35.3-1.

Oh so it's in the mainline apk now? The wiki/readmes need updated to indicate this if possible as they still imply there are separate builds for it on fdroid.

[valldrac]

Oh so it's in the mainline apk now?

Not yet. But it's fully supported with the separate apk in https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android-unifiedpush. We'll have it all in one app at some point.

Just found this old ticket and closed it.

[ilikenwf]

I switched back to molly recently, just with websockets...while bat usage is higher I was sick of gsf under graphene.

[valldrac]

I switched back to molly recently, just with websockets...while bat usage is higher I was sick of gsf under graphene.

We made some improvements to reduce battery drain in the latest update: https://fosstodon.org/@mollyim/111816064499180353