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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thisisartman@mastodon.world to c/android@lemdro.id

The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.

Google, the poor multi-billion dollar scrappy startup that maintains Android, made a payment app that has one notification setting, "Google Pay". So all the ads, promotions, everything.

3rd party apps like PhonePe & Paytm have a better system.

How do you manage to maintain this OS?

@MishaalRahman @androidfaithful @android@lemdro.id @android@lemmy.world

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[-] snowadv@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Only to find out that it creates new channel each time the old one is unavailable.

Yes, Viber?! F it - I disabled calls channel so I don't receive scam calls in it - why would it recreate it?

Proof: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Lv5omRMhc9EBdv7YA

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Some channels are dynamic, so theoretically it could be a calls channel for each different person calling.

That said I feel like I have seen an issue similar to yours for many different apps which use dynamic channels so I think this is due to poor coding and not malicious behaviour.

[-] snowadv@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good point about dynamic channels (even though it sounds bad if you consider the notification channel's purpose) but not true in that particular case: I've talked to a bunch of people using Viber and it still has only one active "call" channel

Probably bad coding - should create notification channel when there's no existing one atm somehow. Probably disabling notification channel also triggers recreation

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