Why would I want to unregister? about pushplugin

[gtg489w]

I think there is a use case for only receiving notifications while the app is active but I don't think unregistering is the correct way to handle that scenario. You may want to unregister in the scenario where you have an in-app settings menu with a toggle to turn on/off push notifications.

I also saw something about GCM switching up the registration ID (not sure if that's true or outdated) but you may want to do some reading on that subject.

[brabidou]

I agree I'm not fully understanding why you would ever want to unregister. What happens under the covers when I call unregisters? Will I be given a new unique token when I call register next time?

[gtg489w]

From what I've seen the token doesn't change when you unregister and re-register. Let's consider the following:

1. User does not unregister push notifications
2. Phone still receives the notification and sticks the alert in the notification center
3. App may/may not do anything with the notification

or

1. User unregisters through the app
2. Phone does not receive the notification and the alert does not appear in the notification center

The unregistration happens at the OS/GCM level so this prevents the messages from ever appearing to the user. An important thing to note is that your app should function with or without receiving these notifications so don't build any dependencies on them. They're a nice to have feature and can also be turned off through the OS.

[jdhiro]

The key only really changes with you build the app with a different cert. IMO, there really is no need to unregister ever. If you want to stop sending notifications to a client, you should stop sending them on your own server.

[jdhiro]

Also, I don't really think this is an "issue". =)