Google might let you sync your notifications between your Android devices
Google might let you sync your notifications between your Android devices
Google could be working on a feature that syncs notifications between your Android phones and your Android tablets.
Google could be working on a feature that syncs notifications between your Android phones and your Android tablets.
Might? Do I need to sacrifice a goat or sth?
Google "might let me" do something...
If that doesn't summarize everything that's wrong with this fucking monopolist, that controls YOUR device that you paid with YOUR money but ultimately isn't yours to do as you please, I don't know what does.
The only thing that makes Google a bit tolerable in the mobile space is Apple, because Apple is even worse. At least you can (still) sideload stuff in Android - although Google is about to make that impossible very soon too.
Fuck the monopolists.
You can already do whatever you want with it. I can easily install another entire OS on my Pixel.
What if you don't want a Pixel? Or a Fairphone? Or one of the very, VERY few cellphones that you can install a deGoogled OS on?
There are precious few ways of escaping the Google monopoly. I own a Fairphone running CalyxOS, and it happens to be the phone I want because of its excellent repairability. So lucky me. But if I didn't want a Fairphone, nor any Samsung phone, nor any Chinese cellphone, and certainly not a fucking Google phone - because I'd rather cut off my left nut than give Google money to escape Google's surveillance, that's just too rich for me - then I'd be SOL.
My point is, if you refuse to be Google's bitch, Google backs you into a corner. Just because you're happy with the corner doesn't mean you're not stuck in a corner.
All right then, name a single plug and Play solution that allows you to dismiss a notification on one Android device, and automatically dismiss it on another without any intervention.
Systems and macros such as Tasker do not count.
No seriously if there were any alternatives I would love to know about them
Pretty sure KDE connect can handle this, but I haven't played with the notifications portion of it much
Is Pushbullet still a thing?
I'm pretty sure Pushbullet can do this
Most devices don't run the latest Android version so both of those things won't even matter to most people.
Like many other pieces of functionality, Google could surely push this out in a Google Play Services update.
At least until they cancel it later.
They might... when they setup a way to harvest more data from us in the process
dang this title is not great and it seems like it’s getting the reaction they wanted. they’re literally working on this feature, not in a evil silhouetted Zoom call talking about doling out features. another thing to note though, is that there are some tough problems to solve trying to do this outside of the service layer (ie in the OS and not through Google Play Services). the reason this feature works on Apple products is because it operates in the service layer (ie through iCloud), so even if the shadow council at Google pulling the strings on the market’s free hand do “decide to let you have this”, you’ll probably need an account of some sort to make it work. this isn’t going to be something you can sneak around with Graphene or whatever, unless you use GMS on top of it.
point is, if you want this feature you’re likely going to have to prostrate yourself before some authentication provider—be it Google or Samsung or whoever—to get it, if that’s how you choose to view it.