Add reminders push notification support

[David Planella]

In order to provide system integration, we should ensure reminders are not just static notes when the app is running, but that there is notification when a reminder is due.

One option is to use the Alarms API, but a more robust would be to use push notifications, which would cater for getting notified even if reminders have been created outside of the Reminders app - e.g. the web or any other client.

[Riccardo Padovani (rpadovani)]

So, I spent some times to think about the implementation of Alarm API. We have to choose some things:

- Do we add alarm for every reminder, whatever the way has been created? Or we add alarm only for reminders created on device?
If we want to add alarm for every reminder we do it in the backend: at every sync we check which reminders have the alarm yet and we activate the misses.
Also, we need to sync the notes in background: if a user creates a note on the web, he wants the alarm rings also if he didn't open the app since a while

- When we want alarms ring? 10 minutes before the deadline? The day before? And if the reminder is set for a day, but without an hour? When has to ring the alarm? At midnight? At noon?

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

This means that reminders are not yet working, right?

[David Planella (dpm)]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Leo Arias <email address hidden> wrote:

> This means that reminders are not yet working, right?
>

Reminders are working in the sense that you can set and edit them, and see
them on the Reminders tab.

However, there is no system-wide notification that a reminder is due. We're
currently working on getting push notifications for reminders, so that you
get notified even when the app is not running.

Cheers,
David.

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> Title:
> Add Alarm API integration in reminders
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> Status in Ubuntu Reminders app:
> Triaged
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> Bug description:
> In order to provide system integration, we should ensure reminders are
> managed with the Alarms API. The API itself is already functional, but
> it currently requires the notifications part to land:
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[Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson)]

this needs to use the alarm framework, push notifications are for server pushed information

[David Planella (dpm)]

The problem with the Alarms framework is that it won't recognize reminders created from the web when the app is not running. Also last time we looked at it, the Alarms API only supported clock alarms and they couldn't be created from arbitrary apps.

We've discussed it with Evernote and with the push notifications team, using Evernote's webhooks [1].

[1] https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/polling_notification.php#webhooks

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:reminders-app at revision None, scheduled for release in reminders-app, milestone 2014-11-27