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I’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 i…
I started doing all my projects as open source from the beginning The problem isn’t “well then they won’t pay” there tons of coders and open source users who would gladly save time and energy with paid hosted version this is what I offer potential customers that’s not even the hard part the hard part is and always will be marketing and sales and distribution
This isn't really a commercial project, so not much of that applies.
How does it compare to https://galaxystore.samsung.com/detail/com.samsung.systemui.... ?
Is this for real, like do you really not see the difference? Not tryingto be snarky or sth, just struggle to comprehend this.
You compare apples to oranges here. From a short look at the provided link, i guess it doesn'tcompare at all because it's something completely different?
Link you provided seems to be Samsung or OneUI only, integrated with Good Lock. This seems to collect and present notifications together with the ability to search. Does not seem to be open source.
DoNotNotify allows you to restrict apps to only sending you certain kinds of notifications.
They could supplement each other but you can't compare them as far as i'm concerned.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android does, at the level of "Allow notifications from app X" and "Block notifications from app X". DoNotNotify gives granularity and rules (which a specific app may have chosen not to implement). For example: "Allow to display notifications of gate changes" "Block from displaying advertising notifications"
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.
How does it compare to https://galaxystore.samsung.com/detail/com.samsung.systemui.... ?
... Is this for real, like do you really not see the difference? Not tryingto be snarky or sth, just struggle to comprehend this. You compare apples to oranges here. From a short look at the provided link, i guess it doesn'tcompare at all because it's something completely different? Link you provided seems to be Samsung or OneUI only, integrated with Good Lock. This seems to collect and present notifications together…
I couldn't tell the difference at a glance without being familiar with both apps.
Last week I was configuring Samsung for my mother and it constantly nags her with notification for setting up Samsung account (that's not the worst offender tho) and frankly that would really help here.
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Does this by any chance works against built-in applications that don't allow you to disable notifications? Last week I was configuring Samsung for my mother and it constantly nags her with notification for setting up Samsung account (that's not the worst offender tho) and frankly that would really help here.
[0] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications...
FWIW, I suspect there isn't a single programmer you admire that hasn't looked back on moments in their career and cringed at some of their own code.
In some ways, I think it is the hurdle that Linus overcame as an undergraduate that I admire the most. Just putting it out there. This is code. Look at it. It might not amount to anything, but who dares wins.