Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification

I&#x27;d prefer Apple to fix horrible notifications on iOS. Since they broke VoIP background notifications, developers have no way to reliably perform silent delivery of information to device.<p>For example in a chat app that syncs with desktop you can deliver incoming messages, showing them as alerts, but you can&#x27;t deliver your own, because you MUST show alert on every push notification. Another use case is removing notifications: once you message on another device, you want to remove notification on iOS as well. With current notifications it is extremely problematic.<p>(Remaining background notifications in iOS work like shit - and please, do not start discussion that &#x27;it is not needed&#x27; - It is BADLY needed, just ask anyone who has developer experience with this wreck)

Great. I’d love a little game, but the reality is that if anybody uses this it will just be for ads

Seems like too much code to allow in a notification. Doesn&#x27;t that seem like it would be just rife with potential exploits?

Neil Sardesai is a joy to follow – I highly recommend it. He probably knows more about internal macOS APIs than the devs.

Super neat use of iOS Content-Extensions! I didn&#x27;t realize these were so well supported on Big Sur.<p>For anyone looking to build something similar themselves, here&#x27;s an example project on using a Content Extension to create an interactive notification: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;documentation.onesignal.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ios-image-carousel-push-notifications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;documentation.onesignal.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ios-image-carousel-...</a><p>(Direct github link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jfishman1&#x2F;OSNotificationContentExtension" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jfishman1&#x2F;OSNotificationContentExtension</a>)

GamePigeon (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;gamepigeon&#x2F;id1124197642" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;gamepigeon&#x2F;id1124197642</a>) does something similar. Completely unaffiliated but it’s a solid little gaming app and useful for playing games with older family members.

But is it DOOM inside of a tweet? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26599532" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26599532</a>

That&#x27;s interesting. You can also put an entire game inside of a bootloader.

Just curious is it possible to abuse this for malicious code? Just a thought...

Does anyone know if there’s a similar API&#x2F;technique for windows?

When they said notifications are the platform of the future, this is what they meant.<p>It’s not desktops, it’s not mobile, it’s <i>notifications</i>.