On mobile browsers that support it*, the live notifications feature is now available!
To turn on notifications, navigate to your user preferences, and hit “enable notifications” just as you would on desktop.
You will receive a confirmation notification if all went well.
Admin options
There are two new admin options, the push notifications prompt, and the push notifications icon url
push notifications prompt
Adds a consent prompt asking a user to turn on notifications. This will only appear once the user has at least one post or reply.
push notifications icon url
This should be a transparent monochrome icon that will be displayed with the push notification, and will display in the top bar when the notification bar is minimized.
Push notifications plugin
This feature is a migration and integration of the push notifications plugin. This integration is intended to simplify notifications as a single button to enable notifications for both desktop and mobile devices (desktop notifications for desktop, and push notifications for mobile) and support mobile notifications by default.
If you have been using the push notification plugin previously to allow notifications for android devices, this plugin is no longer required.
In the event that you would like to give the choice to enable push notifications on desktop, this plugin has been redesigned to handle this.
*This feature is currently Android only. Supported browsers are those that support ‘push notifications api’.