Flutter own push notifications (store agnostic)

Question

I was wondering, given that Flutter is multi platform and each store requires its own procedure for the final step of setting up Push notifications, would it be worthwhile to implement a full "flutter proprietary push notification system" something that would ignore completely the Android/iOS and other stores implementation?

The main service that the store provides is to "find" the device in the final step of the push, this could be replaced with:

• a subscribe / ack of this flutter layer to a server (whenever the app declares that it wants to use it), that will send the message when required (with a messaging queue?)
• an always on instance on the phone to actually receive the push (this is probably the most critical part)

UPDATE: I am realising that this necessity will probably be covered by some sort of third party provider, such as what Crashlytics has done with error and crash reports.

Answer 1

This is almost impossible.

Because on the basis of Android, there is a part handled by the OS in the case of push, so even if the app does not reside in memory, it can be processed. If you're going to create a Flutter-only Push system, the Flutter app should always be running as a background service (iOS is a different issue).

If you only want to be able to use push while the Flutter app is running, that might be the way to go. However, it will be difficult after the app is closed.

url link : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager