I would pay a lot to have this on iPhone as I'm distracted easily due to my ADHD. iOS doesn't have as granular notification configuration as Android (topics?) plus Apple probably wouldn't agree to funnel all notification through 3rd party app.
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#22I’m not an Android user, but props to you for taking the feedback onboard and doing this, Anuj. Lot of respect for you. In an era of eroded privacy, intrusive notifications, and enshittification you’ve done a genuinely positive and helpful thing to allow ordinary users to fight back.
And, yes, some people will criticise code quality but (a) if those people aren’t actively contributing to the product then you should ignore them, and (b) I suspect the complainers will largely be drowned out by the many who will support your decision.
You certainly aren’t the only highly experienced engineer vibe-coding their way through a problem - I’m leaning very heavily on Claude, and somewhat on ChatGPT, at the startup I’m working on at the moment.
Thank you, Anuj!
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android 15/16 does allow you to control notifications even lower, at the level of notification category, but indeed the app must have chosen to use them.
Most apps that are in need of notification control either: a) bundle everything in one category, from critical notifications without which the app can't fulfill its purpose to "HEY YOU HAVEN'T USED ME IN A DAY, USE ME NOW" spam b) create a new category for spam every time they feel enough users have turned off the previous one, which is often
Companies do it with email unsubscribe categories to, which is skirting laws for sure.
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#24Kudos on open-sourcing!
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#26I would gladly pay a dollar in the official store to get this app, even knowing it can be downloaded for free from GitHub
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#27I would pay a lot to have this on iPhone as I'm distracted easily due to my ADHD. iOS doesn't have as granular notification configuration as Android (topics?) plus Apple probably wouldn't agree to funnel all notification through 3rd party app.
You're right - the app sandbox model in iOS prevents inter-app communication of notifications, and there is no iOS equivalent to the Android ListenerNotificationService API.
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#28Great step!
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#29How do you add rules to the app?
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#30How do you add rules to the app?
The starting point is a notification from an app that you want to create a rule for. So you wait for a notification, then click on it in the "History" tab, and then you can configure the rest from there. It's slightly non-intuitive, but the reason for that flow is that the app needs the package name of the app, which almost nobody will know.