Is it possible to use your own Airnotifier server with the standard app?
To explain: Our school has a slightly modified Moodle installation provided by the government. This includes a premium plan of the app. However, push messages are deactivated due to privacy issues. It is not possible to get a key in the administration area.
My idea now was to set up a separate server for Airnotifier. Or does it only work with a custom app? I have tried to install the server with these instructions, but absolutely no messages are sent. There is also nothing in the log of the server: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=391095#p1632668
Hi there,
I don't think it's possible to send messages to the official app from a different server. The application includes a couple of files called google-services.json and GoogleService-Info.plist with information about the Airnotifier server, that's what you need to modify in your custom app in order to use a different server.
The reason it works like this is security. If anyone could use a custom server to send push notifications to the official application, it would be possible to impersonate others. So everything needs to go through our Airnotifier server at some point.