Hi,
I'm a developer of a few small android applications and have had an idea. Before I devote a lot of time to developing it (as it'll be free), i'm just looking for opinions on the idea, or even to know if it already exists.
The general premise is this:
I get loads of notifications, we all do. Some of them we want, some of them we don't. We have a way to block notifications from apps already, but not with any kind of filter. So, for example, I play clash of clans. The game gives notifications when a war starts or ends - these are useful. However, the game also throws out sporadic "come back and play" notifications which are not useful and build up to be rather annoying. I could block notifications, but then I miss out on the good ones.
The app would work like this (in theory):
It has a list of applications the user owns, and they can select each one and block/unblock *all* notifications for any app. There is another option to give settings, which would be:
- Allow all but those that match a regular expression
- Allow none but those that match a regular expression
Obviously for user friendliness there needs to be some guidelines on writing simple regex or some other matching method.
That way, I can say to my clash of clans notifications, if it includes "war", then show it, else block it.
A secondary aim would be to allow filtering, similar to inbox rules on emails. The app could put up notifications for each group, e.g
"You have 0 game notifications"
"You have 3 social notifications"
"You have 2 system notifications".
The app could pretty much intercept notifications and place them into one of the groups. Then, when the user selects a group, show them (in the app) a list of notifications that were grouped into it. Again, some mechanism for suggesting which are game notifications and which are social (either based on content or the name of where they originated from) would be needed. Perhaps the user can even identify their own groups and rules - better still (but more would) would be to allow users to share useful rulesets.
So I would then have full control - my Clash of Clans notifications would go into my "game" notifications, assuming they are about the war. My Facebook and birthdays stuff would go nicely into social notifications, and my app updates/android update notifications and stuff like that would go into system notifications.
Generally some work would need doing on the idea to make it easy to do without writing regex, such as selecting a notification and saying "block similar notifications" or "allow similar notifications", but generally - my questions are:
Would you use this?
Does something exist for this that I don't know about?
Would you be interested in developing it with me (even if you are not a developer, developing the idea perhaps)?
I'm a developer of a few small android applications and have had an idea. Before I devote a lot of time to developing it (as it'll be free), i'm just looking for opinions on the idea, or even to know if it already exists.
The general premise is this:
I get loads of notifications, we all do. Some of them we want, some of them we don't. We have a way to block notifications from apps already, but not with any kind of filter. So, for example, I play clash of clans. The game gives notifications when a war starts or ends - these are useful. However, the game also throws out sporadic "come back and play" notifications which are not useful and build up to be rather annoying. I could block notifications, but then I miss out on the good ones.
The app would work like this (in theory):
It has a list of applications the user owns, and they can select each one and block/unblock *all* notifications for any app. There is another option to give settings, which would be:
- Allow all but those that match a regular expression
- Allow none but those that match a regular expression
Obviously for user friendliness there needs to be some guidelines on writing simple regex or some other matching method.
That way, I can say to my clash of clans notifications, if it includes "war", then show it, else block it.
A secondary aim would be to allow filtering, similar to inbox rules on emails. The app could put up notifications for each group, e.g
"You have 0 game notifications"
"You have 3 social notifications"
"You have 2 system notifications".
The app could pretty much intercept notifications and place them into one of the groups. Then, when the user selects a group, show them (in the app) a list of notifications that were grouped into it. Again, some mechanism for suggesting which are game notifications and which are social (either based on content or the name of where they originated from) would be needed. Perhaps the user can even identify their own groups and rules - better still (but more would) would be to allow users to share useful rulesets.
So I would then have full control - my Clash of Clans notifications would go into my "game" notifications, assuming they are about the war. My Facebook and birthdays stuff would go nicely into social notifications, and my app updates/android update notifications and stuff like that would go into system notifications.
Generally some work would need doing on the idea to make it easy to do without writing regex, such as selecting a notification and saying "block similar notifications" or "allow similar notifications", but generally - my questions are:
Would you use this?
Does something exist for this that I don't know about?
Would you be interested in developing it with me (even if you are not a developer, developing the idea perhaps)?
