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KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps

KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KUnifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.

Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/19/kunifiedpush-1.0.0-is-out/

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It turns out, in this case it isn't. This is about a KDE library (service?) that uses Unified Push, which is a standard implemented by servers like ntfy, Nextpush, and Gotify. If you use any f-droid apps, you're probably already using Unified Push. Home Assistant uses it for mobile notifications, too.

It is, probably, the third biggest notification protocol after Google's and Apple's, only it doesn't route through their servers or provide them with more of your data to harvest and sell.

Unified Push is a good thing. It looks like KDE just makes it accessible to KDE application developers through the KDE libraries.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Home assistant uses it for notifications now? I've got the f droid version but don't see that.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I meant the server can deliver notifications via ntfy:

https://docs.ntfy.sh/examples/#home-assistant

Yeah, I don't think the mobile app communicates with the server over anything but the web API.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh OK. Yes I've had this going for a while. If Anyone wants some configs I'll paste them.

[–] crystalmoon@chaos.social -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@sxan I have never used f-droid, as I do not use Android.
Regardless, all banks and fintechs in my country will disable your account you if they detect sideloading apps like it.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

ntfy is in the app store, so you don't have you side load it. I don't know how many iOS apps use ntfy, but many Android OSS apps will ask you over which notification system you want to work.

I was just clarifying that this isn't one of the XKCD proliferation cases. Apple and Google's push notifications are proprietary and give them full access to your notifications. Unified Push is the OSS alternative, and this KDE enhancement doesn't createa another one: it uses the defacto standard OSS push notification specification.

The fact that ntfy is in the Apple app store makes me suspect there must be some number of iOS apps that can be configured to use Unified Push.