No combined notification+ringer volume control? No non-dismissable notifications? No disabling of the bottom search bar? fair point this is launcher issue What the fuck is that shit?!

  • Carighan MaconarEnglish
    16•6 months ago

    What are non-dismissable notifications? Or more specifically, why would I want those?

    • nudny ekscentrykOPEnglish
      17•6 months ago

      Persistent notification for some ongoing processes, such as downloads, torrenting clients, VPN services, all sorts of synchronisation, weather, DND, bedtime mode, battery monitors etc.

      I in particular liked to use it with Tasks.org client for non-dismissable reminders, so that they stayed in the notifications bar until I mark them done. This way I would never accidentally dismiss a reminder for a chore until I specifically completed it.

      • @null@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5•6 months ago

        I in particular liked to use it with Tasks.org client for non-dismissable reminders, so that they stayed in the notifications bar until I mark them done. This way I would never accidentally dismiss a reminder for a chore until I specifically completed it.

        This right here. Exact same use case.

        What I’ve started doing is setting them to re-trigger at random if they’ve been swiped away. At least then if I accidentally dismiss it, it’ll come back in a little while.

    • MartinEnglish
      7•6 months ago

      It was a way for apps to run without risk of being killed while letting the user easily see that the app was running.

      • Carighan MaconarEnglish
        8•6 months ago

        That sounds like a weird way to get around battery optimizations without having to ask the user to explicitly do that for this app? I mean there is a mechanic for that already via disabling battery optimizations, far as I understand it.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
          6•6 months ago

          Showing a notification doesn’t “evade” battery optimization - as battery optimization is completely independent of Android’s memory management.

          Showing a notification allows Android’s memory management to better assess what apps to kill using a weights system, based on whether they are in the foreground or background, if any of the app’s overlays/notifications are visible to the user, and exactly how visible they are.

          Battery optimization will kill any non-system app based on how frequently it is used, dependent on its overall background CPU usage, regardless of whether the app is showing a notification or not.