unclenight / waydroid-notificator

A simple Flask-based app to display notifications forwarded by [Notifikator app](https://github.com/koro666/notifikator) as Sailfish OS notification pop-ups

Waydroid Notificator

A simple Flask-based app to display notifications forwarded by Notifikator app as Linux notification pop-ups via DBus. Meant to run as a SystemD service (from user) with gunicorn.

Notifikator needs to be configured to forward notification data as JSON to http://<waydroid-bridge-ip>:8000 - most likely, this will be 192.168.240.1. As a security precaution, run.sh script detects Waydroid bridge IP to bind gunicorn to it - thus, port 8000 is only open to requests from Waydroid.

Installation

The app is very raw at this stage and does not have an RPM package. The installation process is manual and is focused on getting the things done ASAP.

Copy the app contents into /opt (or clone the repo as /opt/waydroid-notificator), install Python dependencies (preferably, system-wide so the paths are available to SystemD), register the SystemD service and run it.

Commands run on a Sailfish OS:

cd /opt/waydroid-notificator
devel-su pip install -r requirements.txt
cp waydroid-notificator.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable waydroid-notificator
systemctl --user start waydroid-notificator

At this point, the app should run as a SystemD-managed daemon and listen on 192.168.240.1:8000.

In Waydroid:

• install Notifikator app
• allow Notifikator to intercept system notifications
• set URL to http://192.168.240.1:8000 (IP can change depending on your Waydroid setup!)
• set Protocol to JSON
• do not enable authentication

You can test the notifications now using the dedicated button in Notifikator.

Known Issues

• v1.1 of Notifikator app does not include application name in the JSON data. master branch of the repo contains all the fix already, there's just no built .apk file to download. Flask app was designed with v1.1 in mind (at least until I rebuild the Notificator) so it displays Waydroid as application name for every notification
• some Android applications duplicate the same notification multiple times when a long-running process with a progress bar is executed (Waydroid backup, Seedvault, is a good example - it sends about ten notifications at once). The app does not handle these as the same notification currently, so you'll be spammed every time such an event happens in Waydroid.

License

• MIT