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ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes, I used web sockets for Signal for a while. It drained 30% of my battery when the phone sat idle for a day. Absolutely bonkers. Made the phone almost unusable so had to revert to FCM or disable notifications.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Ya, it can be brutal on battery.

    I worked on an app once where delivery was critical, so we gave them the option of the active service+websocket, but for them the trade off was acceptable.

    Pushes can be pretty flakey given all the shenanigans OEMs do on the device, even when marked as high priority correctly.

    And the even worse part is when OEMs reset battery saving flags the user had set to help pushes get through and they stop working one day because of it.

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