Initial release of the Chrome extension in the Chrome Web Store.ĭesktop Notifications is featured on Lifehacker. Initial release of the Android app in the Google Play Store with support for Android 2.2 - 4.0. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at you for using Desktop Notifications. You can optionally revoke the Google account authentication by visiting this page. Server-side account and device data will be deleted. The updates will remove all functionality from the app/extension and will allow you to uninstall them with a single click.

What will happen? We will roll out final updates for the Android app and Chrome extension.

While replacements for the Google+ sign-in and GCM exist, switching to them would require a complete rewrite of most components of Desktop Notifications.

The human-computer interaction group at the University of Stuttgart split and moved to the University of Munich and the University of Regensburg, with only a few people remaining in Stuttgart.Īdditionally, Google announced the plans to discontinue Google+ for consumers (including the Google+ APIs) and Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), the latter which powers the actual distribution of push events.

Why is this happening? Last year, multiple things came together that eventually led to our choice to discontinue Desktop Notifications.

Since then, the app has been downloaded almost 600,000 times and billions of notifications were sent to desktops around the world. Desktop Notifications has been discontinued on February 28, 2019.ĭesktop Notifications was initially created as a student project in 2012.

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