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OpenPush instead of FCM #5510

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@langfingaz

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

  1. The NC app from the playstore uses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to deliver push notifications. As Nextcloud is used by many privacy aware users, this is not ideal.
  2. The NC (and NC Talk) app from f-droid lack in push notifications completely.

Describe the solution you'd like

There is a project funded by the PrototypeFund that aims to create a free and open source self-hosted replacement for Android Push Notifications. Even though this project is not yet ready to use, we could keep track of it and maybe at some point
a) include an option in the settings to use a custom OpenPush instance instead of FCM for notifications.
b) replace Google FCM with OpenPush completely and run an OpenPush instance that is preconfigured in the Android app.

https://bubu1.eu/openpush/

Alternatives

The usage of microG's Google Play Services library replacement on the f-droid version (see #3333) would solve (2).

Additional notes

(1) is not of high priority, same goes for providing a dedicated OpenPush server instance (as proposed in (b)). But having the option to use a custom OpenPush instance would be a good thing to have in the future!

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