OpenPush
The OpenPush project aims to create a free and open source self-hosted replacement for Android Push Notifications usually sent through Google's proprietary Firebase ...
- Free • Open Source
- Self-Hosted
What is OpenPush?
The OpenPush project aims to create a free and open source self-hosted replacement for Android Push Notifications usually sent through Google's proprietary Firebase Cloud Messaging platform. This started as a PrototypeFund project. Development is still ongoing.
Benefits
- Free Software. FCM is a proprietary service and the Firebase client libs are closed source. This makes projects including fcm libraries effectively non-free software which i.e. cannot be added to the FOSS F-Droid appstore.
- Self-hosted. When self-hosting a open source project, there's no dependency on an external service anymore.
- User is in control. A smartphone user can chose a pushserver instance, possibly self-hosted or hosted by a trusted entity. This instance's url is communicated to the webservice together with the app token to the push-notification producer. Push-notifications will only be sent to this server.
Discontinued
Development seems to have stalled before ever becoming available; a new alternative appeared in the form of UnifiedPush
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OpenPush Features
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Tags
- push-notification
- mobile-push-notifications
- push-notification-service
UnifiedPush is a successor to OpenPush, which development stalled