Give notifications a distinct vibration pattern, on Android #5136
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For detailed discussion of choosing this particular pattern, see: https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/48-mobile/topic/notification.20vibration.20pattern/near/1284530 This also makes the first time we're discarding an old notification channel / category and making a new one, in order to change the settings that can't be changed on an existing channel. So add a bit of infrastructure to handle that: just look for channels that aren't at the current channel ID, and delete them. Before putting this in a prod release, I'd like to bunch it up with setting a distinct notification sound too, to avoid repeatedly clobbering users' settings. But it's fine to do that for us few alpha users, so that isn't an obstacle to merging this now. Also delete the comments about settings being added recently and not necessarily applying, because with the new channel ID they will now always have been applied. Fixes: zulip#5136
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For detailed discussion of choosing this particular pattern, see: https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/48-mobile/topic/notification.20vibration.20pattern/near/1284530 This also makes the first time we're discarding an old notification channel / category and making a new one, in order to change the settings that can't be changed on an existing channel. So add a bit of infrastructure to handle that: just look for channels that aren't at the current channel ID, and delete them. Before putting this in a prod release, I'd like to bunch it up with setting a distinct notification sound too, to avoid repeatedly clobbering users' settings. But it's fine to do that for us few alpha users, so that isn't an obstacle to merging this now. Also delete the comments about settings being added recently and not necessarily applying, because with the new channel ID they will now always have been applied. Fixes: zulip#5136
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This is a sort of sibling issue to #3150 -- in addition to using a distinct, recognizable sound, I'd like to use a distinct, recognizable vibration pattern. This is for basically the same reason as the OP of #3150 explained there:
Chat discussion here with details.
Unlike with sounds, it looks like there isn't an API for us to be able to do this on iOS. I don't see any reference to vibration either in the APIs we'll get to use when we write client-side code to control notifications:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unmutablenotificationcontent
or in the API we're currently using, specifying the details from the server side:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/generating_a_remote_notification#2943363
So this is an Android-only issue without an iOS counterpart.
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