The Android Unified Push Alliance has announced that it has received progress confirmation from companies such as Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong Opal Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Wanpras Technology Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Rui Er Mobile Communications Co., Ltd that have completed the development work in accordance with the latest version of the alliance standard “T-UPA0002-2019 unified push interface layer specification.” It means that unified push service will be soon available on smartphones from Huawei, Honor, OPPO, OnePlus and Realme in China.
Push notifications are an important feature on Android devices. However, Chinese smartphone OEMs provide their own notification systems through their custom ROM instead of Google’s push notifications service. Push notifications can impact the device’s performance by running in background. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has formed Unified Push Alliance to resolve the issue by unifying push notifications on all Android devices that are sent through different apps. Apart from the companies mentioned above, the alliance has 74 members including Xiaomi, Qihoo 360, Alibaba, JD.com and more.
The alliance was formed to ensure that unified push notifications will allow handsets to receive push messages without waking up apps. It will improve the user experience on Android devices as unified push notifications will consume less memory, standby power and data.
Huawei and Honor will make unified push available on the upcoming EMUI 10. Hence, devices eligible to receive EMUI 10 will be able to take advantage of the unified push feature. OPPO will bring support for it on ColorOS 3.0 and above. By Dec. 31 this year, the company is expected to make it available for 93 percent of its devices.
All Realme devices will receive the feature and OnePlus 5 and above phones will be provided support for unified push service. Other companies like Xiaomi, Vivo and iQOO are also expected to rollout unified push service in the near future.
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