Twitter push notifications? - General Questions and Answers

Anyone have a solution for twitter push notifications yet? Android 2.2 compatible that is. I tried pushee but I couldnt register for some reason.
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There's been a lot of talk about Pushee but the registration hasn't been working since mid Fall, or something like that. Discontinued, me thinks.

i wish apps could fix this same with facebook push id kind of necessary with me lol constant user

Takes a bit of setting up but the notifo beta works very well for twitter push. I get notifications of new mentions and DMs in around 5 seconds.
you need the beta client and you also need a notifo account and to set up your twitter account with push.ly (follow the link from notifo)
http://notifo.com/mobile_apps/android
Also, flow for facebook uses a kind of faux push which works very well. It intercepts GMail facebook updates and pops up a notification. highly recommended.
https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotify&feature=search_result

maltloaf said:
Takes a bit of setting up but the notifo beta works very well for twitter push. I get notifications of new mentions and DMs in around 5 seconds.
you need the beta client and you also need a notifo account and to set up your twitter account with push.ly (follow the link from notifo)
http://notifo.com/mobile_apps/android
Also, flow for facebook uses a kind of faux push which works very well. It intercepts GMail facebook updates and pops up a notification. highly recommended.
https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotify&feature=search_result
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Thanks for the information! I've setup Notifo and it's working great! Now I can set the refresh rate on my Twitter client to something a little higher to help with battery life.

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[APP] k9 mail client

Hi,
I just found this app to manage the email and looks better than the stock one.
My only problem is the conversation threads style of gmail, it doesn't appear on k9 so I have 20 different emails for one thread, does anyone know a way to group conversations in k9 like in gmail?
I know this app from G1. It's so old... I do not think, that k9 has anything more then stock gmail app. Also I do not think, that this app is still developed. I think, that your problem with mails thread comes from incompatibilities with 2.1 system (k9 comes from 1.1 times).
k9mail
Hi
K9mail is a powerfull app download latest version from dev website at google code or use atrackdog to go there
Latest version 2510
k9mail seems to sync my emails (and delete them) via IMAP better than the nexus stock app
Yeah, I think k9 blows away stock app, I've been using it for over a year now. But to answer the initial question, no way to thread conversations.
Is K9 still better than stock if your using gmail?
What about search funtionality, I doubt k9 can beat the stock mail clients ability to server side searches back as far as you have mail, I didnt think pop or imap support this? or am I wrong?
i use stock for gmail, and k9 for all other imap accounts.
scote said:
Is K9 still better than stock if your using gmail?
What about search funtionality, I doubt k9 can beat the stock mail clients ability to server side searches back as far as you have mail, I didnt think pop or imap support this? or am I wrong?
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If you are using Gmail, no... K9 is probably not better than stock.
In fact, I used to (on my G1) use K9 for several of my alternate accounts, one is a straight up @gmail.com account - another is a Google Apps for Domains account. But, now that I can sync multiple Google Accounts on my Nexus, I am only using K9 for my ISP's account. The functionality that the built in Gmail app provides is superb (in my opinion), as mentioned by the OP the threading of conversations makes it very easy to navigate a larger inbox.
Does K9 have "real" push, I want to use it but I don't want it to kill battery faster than stock GMail apps and it REALLY need to start threading!
So wonderfully helpful ...
k9 is slow.. profimail on symbian is way faster.. unfort.
i tried to email them suggestions but they ignored me..
one reason it is so slow is it is not keeping track of highest message id per mailbox.. so everytime you connect it is redownloading the last 25 messages or whatever amount you have it set to.
the second reason is that it is downloading entire messages.. it really only needs to download headers, and keep a connection to server open while you are in the app and then download the body when you goto a message.
if they would implement these 2 changes it would be light years faster.
lgkahn said:
k9 is slow.. profimail on symbian is way faster.. unfort.
i tried to email them suggestions but they ignored me..
one reason it is so slow is it is not keeping track of highest message id per mailbox.. so everytime you connect it is redownloading the last 25 messages or whatever amount you have it set to.
the second reason is that it is downloading entire messages.. it really only needs to download headers, and keep a connection to server open while you are in the app and then download the body when you goto a message.
if they would implement these 2 changes it would be light years faster.
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k9 has setting to download headers only.
not in the latest release version 25.15 i went through all settings again
O and O said:
Does K9 have "real" push, I want to use it but I don't want it to kill battery faster than stock GMail apps and it REALLY need to start threading!
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Any ideas?
Yes, it supports the IMAP "IDLE" command, which gives you what you're calling "push" (rather than polling for email). The latest K9 also supports the "COMPRESS" extension, which transfers compressed versions of the content, which means less data usage, and less transmit/receive time.
and latest version 3.312 supports "Storage location"
- regular internal storage
- external storage (sd card)
rori~ said:
and latest version 3.312 supports "Storage location"
- regular internal storage
- external storage (sd card)
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Nice, a great app just got better.
Just checked the market and the latest version is 3.207. Where are you seeing 3.312?
Edit 2: Didn't release K9 is open source, very nice.http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/downloads/list
jlevy73 said:
..Edit 2: Didn't release K9 is open source, very nice.http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/downloads/list
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yeah, I always stick to their code.google.com...releases, almost every couple of days a new one, quite impressive workers!! I havent used android default email app since,.... I dont know
Should sticky this, this app is awesome and with push and SDCARD saving all the email, even better.
..as I said, ipressive workers, update out k9-3.313-release.apk

New Facebook 15/12/10

Just checked my market updates, and there's an official Facebook update in the market (version 1.50)!
It allows push notifications aswell as Facebook chat!
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Updating.. 2.53 MB
Thanks!
This sucks... there are STILL NO notifications for comments, likes, wall posts etc... are you KIDDING ME????
i like chat feat. but still no notifictionas
guys what do you mean no notifications? mine does have notifications.
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I'm not getting instant notifications either. Chat will come up, but nothing in the realm of push notifications. tested sending from from my wifes account to mine.
chat works great, push notifications doesn't work. still have to check app just for the notifications :/
Great for letting us know
Okay, a question about chat since I've never had it before through Facebook. How is your online status "toggled" while using chat?
So if I open up the facebook app, and look at my news feed, am I now online? And to go offline, do I physically have to go into facebook chat and click "go offline"?
Also, if I want to be on chat, but have it run in the background, how can I confirm that it's running?
The entire user interface seems very poor. Wouldn't the ability to toggle chat on/off and easily access conversations and your status from the notification bar be essential in this type of app?
notifications works fine for me... kinda odd though since the messages and other stuffs still uses interval... only the posts and such has push.
http://plixi.com/p/63017058
http://plixi.com/p/63017175
According to the Facebook page of Facebook for android, push notifications is only supported with android 2.2+
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WoodDraw said:
Okay, a question about chat since I've never had it before through Facebook. How is your online status "toggled" while using chat?
So if I open up the facebook app, and look at my news feed, am I now online? And to go offline, do I physically have to go into facebook chat and click "go offline"?
Also, if I want to be on chat, but have it run in the background, how can I confirm that it's running?
The entire user interface seems very poor. Wouldn't the ability to toggle chat on/off and easily access conversations and your status from the notification bar be essential in this type of app?
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From the Chat screen hit menu and it's the only option.
evilkorn said:
From the Chat screen hit menu and it's the only option.
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Yeah, I see that. But there's no "Go online" option, is there? So how do you ever know if your online or offline? I don't know, I'm used to Go!Chat. There should be some clear toggle option.
How about for people that never want to appear online?
For example, I just opened up facebook on my phone and hit chat. I guess I'm now online? So now I hit android home. Am I still online? How is there anyway of knowing? Online until when?
It's completely non-functional as a useful mobile chat app.
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I've also tried multiple times to close "active conversations", and they keep showing back up on all refreshes. I was looking forward to native facebook chat, but I'll stick with 3rd party apps until they can improve this.
Chat and Push both are working flawlessly on my Droid 2. Rooted but running a pretty much stock OS.
About time they got this one out. Was doing this with a blackberry almost 2 years ago. I am now able to remove about 4 apps that I was running in order to cover my FB account while mobile.
Nice work Devs!
Push notification working good on my evo. I was also using f plus and had it set for five minutes and I'm getting notification quicker with the official app
I download it from market but installation failed. Did I do anything wrong or it is caused by android build on HTC HD2?
Long conversations
And still it is not possible to have long conversations. Quite annoying
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applic...=wall#!/topic.php?uid=74769995908&topic=15119
can i uploaded multiple photos to the album?
unable to upgrade Facebook
bitmappp said:
can i uploaded multiple photos to the album?
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When i go to Android market and try to upgrade. after downloading the Installing is not successful. Please let me know how to upgrade.
push
so.. let me understand,
is push for notification, or just chat?

Facebook Push Notifications for Devices NOT running 2.2

*****EDIT 2/25/2011*****
VERY SORRY for the delay in editing this post and/or replying to the comments!
I have had some very serious family problems in the last couple months and during this, didn't renew the lease with the server i was renting. I am currently looking to buy a server (or share one with any other dev??) that i can use to run this App. It requires its own server due to the amount of requests it needs to keep thousands of users up to date with all their accounts and push messages to your devices.
I am EXTREMELY sorry that I had not been able to come on and post this, but in the last 24 hours I have received TONS of emails stating you're getting an error signing up. Thats because The server isnt responding anymore to requests, I apologize.
I will have this fixed hopefully soon and also incorporate many more social media outlets into the app that don't currently have push updates.
Again, SORRY for the delay in updating this. I hope to have a new Beta out soon.
Thanks!
*******End Edit******
Hey Guys..
This is our first post to XDA, and we are glad to be here.
We are a new Android development team, Atomic Pineapple. We wanted to let you guys know we have an app in Beta that brings push notifications for Facebook, and Twitter (this week for twitter) for ALL versions of Android. The app is called "Pushee"
Our plans are to grow the app into a full service push notification tool, including all the most used social platforms, FB, twitter, 4square, etc. We also have plans to bring push notifications for all POP3 email for non Gmail accounts as there is currently nothing for this. All these are in the works and will be integrated into pushee in the next few weeks.
If you want to get the Beta for Pushee just go to pushee(dot)atomicpineapple(dot)com and download it. Sorry we couldn't post a link because we are new users lol.
It will be out of Beta within a week or two and on the Market with a 7 Day Free Trial, and then for sale at 1.49.
Any comments on adding services to have notifications pushed are welcome!
Thanks!
Justin,
Atomic Pineapple.
I'm going to test it right now and it seems to be awesome !
I'm loving it so far. Few things..
1) Icon, I'm sure this will get changed soon. Just checking
2) When tapping on the notification for new items for Facebook, it wanted to open my browser. I would rather have it open my Facebook app. For example, when I see I have 2 new friend requests, I would like it to go to my Friends section of the Facebook app. Possible? =D
Also, do I have to add this to my task killer for it to monitor my Facebook?
dEris said:
I'm loving it so far. Few things..
1) Icon, I'm sure this will get changed soon. Just checking
2) When tapping on the notification for new items for Facebook, it wanted to open my browser. I would rather have it open my Facebook app. For example, when I see I have 2 new friend requests, I would like it to go to my Friends section of the Facebook app. Possible? =D
Also, do I have to add this to my task killer for it to monitor my Facebook?
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Not sur but i think you must add this to your Task Killer
Waiting for the twitter option !
Looks great so far! One question, when we say "yes" when application asks for "exit?", are we gonna receive notifications?
And one addition, charset seems not "utf", or whatever (im new in android world), when we have non-english characters in the account name, it appears as a "â–¡".
I just installed it, so im still waiting to see if i get a notification within 60 minutes (logged on gf's account and posted on one of my own comments)..
Bug/problem ->
Since i have an x10 mini pro, i have a small display - it is really hard to setup Pushee on this phone, as text is cluttered all over the screen, and email input is behind 'explanation text' etc.
Besides that, because of the MANY MANY permissions pushee needs, it was almost impossible (i got lucky) to press 'accept' to those permissions on facebook popup.
I've set facebook to 'never' update - i assume that is correct? As the Pushee servers will do the checking.
- If this app works & it enters the facebook app instead of the browser - then i'll definatly buy it - Even though 1.49$ seems like a bit much for a 'notification application'..
This app looked really promising.. but..
After a few hours, spamming myself with notifications and messages on facebook - I still didn't get any on the phone.
Installation/Configuration text is all messed up, and its hard to configure on an x10 mini pro.
Tried reinstalling - Cant create an account with the same email - Fair enough... But i cannot login to an existing account, the button simply doesn't work.
Sure this is a beta, and not alpha?

Yahoo eMail on Captivate - Successful

Yahoo email finally worked for me (both on mobile network & Wifi)
Please feel free to move this to appropriate thread/page, if this is NOT the place for it. I apologize. Just wanted to share if someone is looking for info on this.
Note: I am running Darky's 8.1 ROM, the Email app didn't work. It force closed on me several times. As a work around, I copied/replaced the Email.apk from other ROM (Axura 2.5 that I saved) into system\app folder using RootExplorer and got it to work with the below settings :
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1. Open Email
2. Select 'Add Account'
a. Enter your yahoo email Username: [email protected]
b. Enter password: password
3. Click on 'Manual Setup'
4. Select 'IMAP'
5. Incoming Server Settings
a. IMAP server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
b. Port: 993
c. Security: SSL (Accept all cetrificates)
d. Optional: blank
6. Click next
7. Outgoing Server Settings
a. SMTP server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
b. Port: 465
c. Security Type: SSL (Accept all cetrificates)
8. Click Next
9. Give a name to your account
DONE.
Note: If I left the default 'port numbers and Secutiry Type : none' in both incoming and outgoing server settings...it DID NOT work. It would give me and error saying 'Username and password are inavlid'
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Good Luck.
I use K9, works both with yahoo and gmail.
Does Yahoo push work for either of you? I was able to set up Yahoo Mail using either default or K9 without trouble except it won't push.
The Yahoo Mail client pushes but lags terribly. MailDroid is the only one that will push but not sure if it's worth the money.
Running stock 2.1 on Captivate currently. Will be curious how these work when I flash something on it.
I just use the Yahoo Mail app. I love it.
Why not just use the yahoo mail application from the market. I use that and it pushes email to the phone.
I can have my phone sitting on my desk and on my computer have the yahoo mail box open. My phone beeps notifying me of an new yahoo mail message, I look at the yahoo email inbox on my computer and it still hasnt even shown up there yet. Thats how fast the push notifications are in yahoo email application. Of course you must be on a 2.2 or higher ROM for the google cloud based notifications (basically push notifications) to work.
derek4484 said:
Why not just use the yahoo mail application from the market. I use that and it pushes email to the phone.
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Like I said, I've found that it lagged terribly. The push notifications were okay, but simple operations like opening emails, deleting, etc., took 5 - 15 seconds per operation. Do you think that's because I'm still running stock 2.1?
@MobileNick
Yes, K9 pushes for me on both yahoo and gmail. It will be under settings for each account you create. There is an option to push in increments of 30min, 1hr, 2hr and so on. Hope this helps.
I like to use just one app for the email since I have multiple accounts with yahoo and gmail.
Xstop said:
@MobileNick
Yes, K9 pushes for me on both yahoo and gmail. It will be under settings for each account you create. There is an option to push in increments of 30min, 1hr, 2hr and so on. Hope this helps.
I like to use just one app for the email since I have multiple accounts with yahoo and gmail.
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Thanks. But that's not really "push" is it? That's polling. I was talking about when the email gets sent to the device right away like Gmail does.
MobileNick said:
Like I said, I've found that it lagged terribly. The push notifications were okay, but simple operations like opening emails, deleting, etc., took 5 - 15 seconds per operation. Do you think that's because I'm still running stock 2.1?
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Unlikely that it's 2.1. I just flashed to Andromeda recently and the app still lags just as bad as it did when I was on stock 2.1 as well. The app isn't so great imo.
MobileNick said:
Thanks. But that's not really "push" is it? That's polling. I was talking about when the email gets sent to the device right away like Gmail does.
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Oh, my bad brotha. I was "thinking" it was push. But you are correct, I usually just use the polling option and set it to an hour, since that's all I need.
Sorry if I wasn't any help
I found the yahoo app was terrible on stock 2.1 but once I updated to 2.2 and applied a lagfix it worked much better. still a little lag but very useable.
those of you using the yahoo app, how do you find your battery life?
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Xstop said:
Oh, my bad brotha. I was "thinking" it was push. But you are correct, I usually just use the polling option and set it to an hour, since that's all I need.
Sorry if I wasn't any help
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No - you're cool! I've been using K-9 with an hourly polling and honestly it's not that bad. Push would be cool but not necessary.
cyco722, mechanical tool: So seems like 2.2 with lagfix is the best way to have the Yahoo app work smoothly. I'll have to try it out once I get there!
mechanical tool said:
I found the yahoo app was terrible on stock 2.1 but once I updated to 2.2 and applied a lagfix it worked much better. still a little lag but very useable.
those of you using the yahoo app, how do you find your battery life?
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Yes, you are correct. There is a little bit of lag in the yahoo mail app compared to the gmail app. It did get much better once I loaded an alternate ROM with a decent lag fix. Its manageable in my opinion.
I havent noticed any hit to the battery life using the yahoo mail app. It sits in the background the entire time using no resources, the push notifications come via googles cloud notification service (I believe this is only for android 2.2 and up, when I was on 2.1 I dont recall getting instant notifications).
Thanks. It works for me.
I found yahoo to be way too laggy, not be able to select multiple emails for deletion. had to actually open the email to then delete. And it wouldn't work over wifi. That all added up to a crappy app. I haven't tried it for a few months to see if they fixed any of these. I use k-9 set on hourly poll.

[App] Hotmail official

Finally for those who use Hotmail an official app with push mail and a widget not bad although the widget isn't very aesthetically pleasing.
Hotmail App
I'm gonna try this one out... there's always the stock app, which does it job good enough, imo... but this one might have something the stock one hasn't...
Thx!
Not a bad app, I expected worse.
nice one
thanks for sharing
Any chance someone could post the apk?
I've been using this for several months as the SEVEN Beta, it let you add any email account including corporate/exchange ones. Still using it and it works really well.
i recommend whatsup app..
djsubtronic said:
I've been using this for several months as the SEVEN Beta, it let you add any email account including corporate/exchange ones. Still using it and it works really well.
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Can you add non-Hotmail accounts as well?
Son of a... no Honeycomb love. I have the same problem with my bank's app and a bunch of others. I have spare parts. It will scale to full screen. Just let me download it, dangit! This is android, don't tell me it's not compatible.
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Works great.
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Can you add non-Hotmail accounts as well?
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Yea, it has Yahoo and Gmail and you can add Exchange accounts too as long as the account has webmail access. I think you can also add custom POP3/IMAP accounts. But for some reason the Beta is no longer available on their site. You can probably find it through a google search though it's called Seven Mail and IM Beta.
Thanks for sharing.
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You know you can add hotmail as exchange email using default add account and choose exchange... all you need you hotmail email address and as user name use your email address and password your hotmail password and leave the domain empty and as for server type m.hotmail.com
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This app gave me a 7 hour partial wakelock. something really wrong going on.
shadowcaster31 said:
This app gave me a 7 hour partial wakelock. something really wrong going on.
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Yeah same problem , it realy drains the battery.
I realy liked the app because of it html support in email, but it realy sucks because of the battery drain!
Anyone knowing a good alternative with html support and a clean interface?
I'm happy with the battery life using the app. As a matter of fact I switched to using the Hotmail app from using an exchange based email. Under Exchange, push was constantly sending POP3 requests and I was getting errors saying that I was exceeding the maximum number of POP3 requests. Battery life was terrible.
Under Hotmail/SEVEN app, battery life is great and no POP3 errors.
HOWEVER, my problems include
1. I cant add or update my contacts since it only displays the names of the contacts and no other information... like email, phone etc.
2. Some emails won't show the message body. Still trying to determine why certain bodies won't show but the majority will.
Hopefully they can fix both BUGS. Other than that, it's a decent app.
thanks for sharing, really good

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