OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android
This is an interesting idea. Sadly, applications that use this are probably not eligible to be distributed through Google Play. One of the main reasons, as I understand, is that Google wants to discourage lots of apps from each having their own network connections open in the background.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145206" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145206</a>