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I've been forever looking for something that can do this in WhatsApp because that's the only app that in my whitelist (android). How much battery does your app consume?

I'm a total miser when it comes to my phone battery and while I surely don't fully understand how android push messages work, I am just paranoid of letting more apps run in the background (like fb messenger, truecaller, etc) because they definitely reduce the battery life.

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With Telegram this is pretty simple: "https://api.telegram.org/bot#{token}/sendMessage?chat_id=#{c...

All you'd need to do to set it up is create a bot (from within Telegram via the BotFather account), and then either start a conversation with it or add it to a group chat or channel.

I've been using this approach to send me notifications whenever someone logs in to one of my servers for a bit of extra security.

Done that too :)

But then, when you need templates, and send payloads from webhooks, there it gets messy..

I made Notify17 exactly to avoid that mess :D

There are no processes running in the background in this app (apart from a periodic check every 10 minutes for new notifications, which lasts very few seconds). I use it all day long and never have issues with battery, because the CPU is used only when it receives a new notification.

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