Other Quiz #6 - What is standing behind the BBM app notification icon?

[Erel]

This should be quite simple to answer. Read this blog: http://www.androidcentral.com/bbm-has-annoying-persistent-notification-you-might-not-want-turn-it

What is this icon? Why is it persistent? How could they implement a similar solution without this icon?

How GCM could solve this issue?

 

[Erel]

Am I the only one that worked with services???

It is really simple.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Trying to give other people a chance

They are using a foreground service. Since they have their own servers they are most probably polling after a certain interval, or maybe they are keeping a keep alive connection.

I guess GCM is a sticky service, so something like that will help them, maybe a Blackberry Push Service.

 

[barx]

I would agree with a foreground service in order to keep the service / process live all the time in order to poll new messages.

Some sort of push service would get rid IF it is possible, I've not played with services a great deal and never done anything push.

 

[mc73]

No need for a foreground service since it's surely polling. You just need a startserviceat. Gcm would be an answer as well, true. Actually I use both ways.

 

[Erel]

You are correct. This icon is a result of creating a foreground service (Service.StartForeground).

A "lighter" solution which is less disturbing for the user is to use a sticky service: Creating a sticky service - long running background tasks

The advantage of GCM (Google push framework) is that it is a single connection shared by any app that wants to receive a push notification. The process doesn't need to be running to receive a push notification with GCM.