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> So to summarize, to save battery all notifications on Android (since two versions ago) have to go through a single notification service

And presumably the user has no way to install alternate notification services?



I don't think so. A "notification service" isn't something that exists solely on the user's device; there's also a server-side component that each remote service that wants to send a push notification has to interact with.

So for Android to support alternate notification services, every app/service that wants to send push notifications would _also_ have to support those alternate services on their backends.




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