Notification support

[klochowicz]

• Rationale
  • Reasons
• How to do it
• Technical implementation
  • Firebase
  • Local notifications
• Side notes

Rationale

• Notifications are an essential part of any mobile applications

Reasons

• nudge the user for more activity
  • the red squiggles (actions) prompt the user to open the app
  • we could post news about new blog posts, BTC price etc.
• communicate about downtime, errors etc
• ask to tweet / fill a survey
• notify about their payment status / position (e.g. expiry)
• prompt the user to start the app once a day

How to do it

I would like to propose adding both Firebase and local notification systems in our app. Firebase app could communicate about errors, pass on surveys etc. We could also inform about the availability of new version, prompting the user to upgrade their 10101 wallet.

Local ones are only active when the app is up, but they can tell e.g. that a position got closed, inform about the profit / loss after a position got closed, communicate that a payment has been received etc.

If anything, I believe that firebase notification service should be added first, because:

• it's easier to implement
• will give us means to reach out the users to both communicate about downtime and to increase app usage

Technical implementation

Initial ticket does not need to cover the whole range of notifications. One is enough.

Below are some links to look at:

Firebase

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72749963/push-notifications-for-flutter-chat-app-without-firebase
• https://medium.com/@yshean/implementing-push-notifications-in-flutter-apps-aef98451e8f1

Local notifications

• https://dev.to/carminezacc/flutter-notifications-without-firebase-33d2

Side notes

• having our tweets / blog posts in the app would be nice.

[bonomat]

That's not much of a discussion 😅 Sounds good as you describe it :)

Let's convert this to a ticket?

[klochowicz]

It's discussion because it was unknown to me if and when we'd like the feature :)

I'll make separate tickets for both firebase and local notifications.

[bonomat]

Let's close this discussion then :)