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

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It still requires developers to care. A bunch of apps I use only have one channel for several types of notifications.

    It makes sense, in a way. Why would you give users the ability to disable your spam? Most apps with proper notification channels also have settings for what notifications to send.

    I do like iOS’s integrated settings more. I think Google’s SharedPreferences model and PreferencesActivity design was designed for a similar overview of settings, but I guess they never implemented it. I wonder if this is a patent problem or just a missed opportunity on Google’s side.