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?
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It is dev dependent, but I don’t agree with “devs can implement it just as easily” at all. One only requires using a built-in API to create notification channels (which you have to call anyway), the other requires designing and programming your own page for it.
iOS has built in app settings that don’t require any more than an entry and some plumbing:
But devs would have to put a setting, then check the setting before sending notifications. On android, you just tag the channel as part of your notification call, and the OS handles it.
And well, next to no apps have the function on iOS. So, I’m guessing it’s too much extra work. Even if not much.
It’s not going to be much more effort than anything else in their app. Like, you’re essentially arguing that a variable and some strings are hard to do, and that just not the case.
Well, the difference (without looking at all the relevant docs) would appear to be an if statement around a call to trigger the notification.
But I guess, since that seems too simple for them to not do it… it’s gotta be a convention / culture thing. When it’s built in to the OS as a feature, other developers are likely to implement it, in the same way, and the users will come to expect it, ask for it. But if you, as a dev, are left to do it yourself, there’s less motivation.
Also, Android might have had some system by which they actively encouraged devs to implement.
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Many apps do actually have those kinda of notification options. Apollo for instance let you choose what notifications you wanted to receive. I’ve seen other apps do the same. Granted, it’s usually within the apps own internal settings and not within their settings page of the Settings app, but they definitely do exist.
That said, it’s likely more that most devs want you to receive all notifications. “Want to get notified when your balance changes? You also have to see our promotions!” Sounds like a very capitalism thing to do.