Hello, I am currently working on a app called Droidbook. Why? Basically I was tired of getting 1,000 email notifications from facebook but I wanted to be notified, I was tired of filtering my the facebook email notifications, I was tired of not getting a sexy little task bar notification ( I know I know, use bloo), most of all I grew tired of all the other OS's having a fully working facebook app. So heres my shot at it, but please. What would you like to see in this app?
very interested in this.
i have the same complaints with all the email notifications.
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Or does it??
you already get a notification when an email arrives, what more do you want?
an intrusive, iPhone like pop up box like in the 90ies?
Sounds like he does. To each his own. Does Gmail Notifier app do that maybe? Worth checking out, OP.
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you already get a notification when an email arrives, what more do you want?
an intrusive, iPhone like pop up box like in the 90ies?
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Guess I get tired of dragging down the notification bar to clear the notification every time I get an email throughout the day. It takes more movements that way and it builds up to annoyance throughout the day. Seems easier to take that away and just have a popup that shows me I have an email and gives the option to close the popup or read/respond.
The option exist for SMS and it works great - figured it'd work great for email too. Surprised it doesn't exist.
I'm glad you asked - I happen to have just the right thing for you
Just search for "Gmail Popup" on the Android Market. There's a free trial version as well which works until the end of this month.
Looking forward to your feedback!
The Facebook Push Notifications doesn't work for me. Chat is working fine, but not comments, Friend requests and so on!.
Does it work for anyone here with Facebook 1.5.1? If Yes what are your settings?
Android 2.2.1 DHD Leedroid 1.5.1a Facebook 1.5.1
it does not work for me either ...
I haven't had it working for me either..I will get notification bar updates but no push notifications.
damn it ... I think they removed this function.. but why? What is with a downgrade.
Should be 1.5.0
Yep, it's been quiet for a while here too.
It has been quiet my end as well for some time.
I remember we used to get them
Does anyone have the Facebook 1.5.0 version, I would try this out!
I tried it with fb 1.50, too.
Doesnt working either!
My understanding of Facebook push notifications is that they SUCK!!! Sorry about that. When normal people think of push notifications we think of notifications of things we actually want to be notified of like wall posts, comments, likes, etc. Unfortunately for us when Facebook thinks push notifications they think about pushing us notifications for things we don't care about like event invites and inbox messages.
I don't have much in faith in facebook in that we will ever get push support for all notifications :-( It seems to me that facebook's strategy for android will be to integrate features into the phone instead of delivering a stealer app people. This means working with OEMs as they have been as of late. I don't think we will ever get a useful app from facebook.
Currently I think Tweetdeck provides you with the most comprehensive facebook notification support and when you combine that with the actually facebook app all notifications are covered I believe. The only downside is that Tweetdeck is poll driven.
I used to get it for comments, wall post, inbox bla bla..
now didnt get it anymore.. oh well, thats fine... it's not like my world will end without push noti anw
I think 1.5.1 broke or disabled the push notifications feature.
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Have you guys tried facebook flow? I just installed it testerday. I has the option of utilizing gmail push notification to send/recieve facebook notifications.
Ive liked it more and more since I have installed it, and the push works great
Yeah man. Sad that Facebook not going to deliver an application for android users. Sigh..
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Any IM app that is PUSH technology rather than Pull? Besides Gtalk.
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Any IM app that is PUSH technology rather than Pull? Besides Gtalk.
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I believe both beejive and trillian use push notifications.
trillian is half the price of beejive and if you use trillian's desktop or web app you can have your im conversations on your phone synced to those products.
beejive on the other hand saves your conversations to your sdcard and also has the ability to email the transcripts to what ever account you want.
trillian lets you set a custom ringtone for notifications where as beejive only lets you pick from either the yahoo, msn, or aol im sound. I think this is unfortunate though beejive lets you set a different sound when the app is active and when it is idel which is cool
beejive will notify you in the status bar when you receive an im as well as blink the led, though I think the status bar notification is timed (by that I mean the notification disappears from the status bar after some set time. This is what I have noticed idk anything official)
I believe trillian also notifies you in the status bar. trillian also allows you to suspend the app. this logs you out of the app on the phone but keeps you logged into all your im services on trillian's servers. I think this is prob similar to beejive's idel stat in that it is designed to use less battery when not actively using the app. If the app is suspended you will receive an email notification that you have received an im.
As far as support goes, trillian has a forum that you can post any questions in. The only support for beejive that I know of are their email addresses listed on their website and the market-place and I haven't had much luck when emailing them questions.
beejive also lets you set your status: available, away, busy, and invisible and also have custom status messages for each service. You can also delete, appear offline, and block contacts though I haven't had success with those features.
I think that they should re-add those features back.
For a second there, I thought I was the only one that noticed that Facebook push notifications actually existed for a short while and then died. I've done multiple phone wipes and rebuilds to try to correct the problem. Now it's clear that it's a Facebook thing and not my phone.
I setup a gmail account just for facebook....I get instant notifications....I gave up on face book notification. And only reason i setup another gmail...so i can have a diffrent tone and nothing but FB mesages. THe moment you get your message its sent to your gmail you setup.
I think the lack of notifications is on purpose, and it makes sense. Here is why, an average person has well over 100 friends on FB, if you leave a comment on any post you recieve a notification on facebook each time someone responds, if you "like" a post, the same thing happens, now figure that you commented on 20 or more different posts and made a few yourself, Do you people have any idea how incredibly annoying it would be to get a notification everytime someone "likes" or comments on those same posts or links anytime after? It makes perfect sense why FB only pushes Friend Requests, PM's and Events. I won't even get into the amount of server bandwith it would be using. It's common sense.
I suppose it would be nice for them to offer an option in the settings for the people so incredibly obsessed with every little thing that happens on facebook but I myself would go insane if my phone vibrated or beeped everytime someone responded to a wall post.
Uh....Facebook allows push notifications for everything. Just not push notifications from app. Everything you mentioned is pushed to my gmail account or sms. Yes does get annoying if 50 people reply to a post but FB does push notifications.
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I'm getting rather frustrated with the whole Facebook and Android experience. I have used the official Facebook app, Flow for Facebook, which became FriendCaster and the Facebook Notifications app.
We all know the official app only works sometimes for notifications. FriendCaster and the notifications app work better, however not 100%.
For about the past three weeks now, whenever I would post a link on my wall and someone would comment on it, I would receive an email from Facebook saying so, but would never get a push notification of it on either FriendCaster Pro (using Gmail or K9 Push), or Facebook Notifications.
If someone commented on a regular Wall post I made (no links), those comments will come to the applications as push notifications.
I just don't understand what the difference is between a comment on a regular Wall post and a comment on a link Wall post. I figure since both apps fail to receive notifications of comments on the latter, that it must be something on Facebook's end.
Would someone with a greater knowledge of all things Android, Facebook and push have any insight on this?
Thank you.
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I'm no expert in Facebook or even Android (I'm a noob). However, I have heard the same exact issues on iphone, blackberry, and windows phones. I must agree that this is no doubt a facebook issue. I carry both an Android for pleasure and a Blackberry for work. I have tried the application on both personally and have experienced the lack of reliable notifications on both operating systems.
Hope that helps!
Lance
I remember the notifications being very reliable with the BlackBerry app. Perhaps I'm remembering through rose tinted glasses. I wish FB were like Twitter, where the notifications just worked.
There has been an article on portle about this and how people who had crackburrys previous should get the same reliability as previous check if still have bb authorised in fb as that was what some users found solved problem, I find issues with notifications not just limited to fb as g+ can be the same wonder if just a problem regarding process and sleep of device.
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Thanks for the info guys!! It has been a while since I tried facebook with the old blackberry so maybe the issues I had got ironed out. If I ever try it again on there I will make sure facebook has access.
Thanks,
Lance
last couple days i don't get any notifications anymore. Thought it would be fixed with the halloweeen update but still the same issue here. I'm not sure if it's facebooks fault, an app issue, or windows phone related. But I'm having similar problems with my galaxy s android device.
Only Chat is pushed on windows phone right now. On my galaxy s i can get messeges via messenger app, but no notifications someone post on my wall too.
What about you?
Working fine here, even after the new update... messages, friendship requests, the works.
Works fine here, I just got 3 for Wall posts/comments
Do you mean the Facebook app or the built-in system?
If you mean the Facebook apps then i have no clue, but the built-in system show the notification through Live Title of "me"
If youre talkin about the facebook app itself it doesnt give u anymore notifications once u hit more than 19 unread notifications u have to view those notifications to clear them out then u will get more notifications
I don't even have 1 notification.. no push notifications at all on the facebook app......
i want to start by saying i love my htc titan and the wp7 os. just one thing keeps bothering me....its the damn twitter and facebook notifications. i can have the titan side by side with my iphone 4 and my iphone gets notifications way before the titan does. not only does the me hub not make a sound so i have to check it all the time but it get them way later. the facebook app just sucks in general, and it doesnt show half of my notifications. the mehdoh twitter app is great except it doesnt get notifications in a timely manner neither. so before i switch back what does everyone use(app wise) and how do yall deal with the notifications.
Well it depends really. I use the built in "Me" hub for most of my stuff but since I have 3 twitter accounts for various business I use Seesmic.
Personally I would get really annoyed if my phone was dinging constantly from the flood of tweets. It is bad enough that I have notifications pop up on my desktop. I sggest letting microsoft know on their uservoice site that you want faster notifications on certain apps. They will listen.
Mehdoh runs as a background task so polls when the OS schedules it to (which MS claims is every 30 minutes, but in reality is more every 30-60 minutes... often closer to the latter).
If you want instant (or as close as) notifications then you need a twitter client that has push notifications. Rowi has them... Birdsong allegedly has them but a lot of people say its currently broken.
I have apps that send notifications but don't have a live tile which is extremely annoying because I end up missing all these notifications.
A notification center and a backup solution are desperately needed on this OS.