flutter - Open Source alternatives to push notifications by Google's FCM or Amazon's AWS SQS?

Question

Though I'm politically neutral when it comes to app development, the recent and sudden kill-switch put on Parler by AWS left me a bit uneasy about dependency upon a proprietary system owned by one of the big tech firms. I think I'd prefer to stick with open-source software.

I'm using MySQL as my database and need to send push notifications to a topic on a Flutter mobile app whenever a row is inserted. Can anyone suggest an open-source alternative to Google's FCM or AWS's SNS/SQS?

标签： flutterpush-notificationfirebase-cloud-messagingamazon-sqs

Answer 1

This is not an answer, but rather my experience over the last month.

I agree and have been researching alternatives with my DevOps. It seems that even though you can find open source SDKs out there, you still have to go to Google, Apple and Amazon for the actual push. This and the iron grip on their App Stores needs to end up in court.

I have pulled my Apps and focusing on Browser Based (with flutter). Everything hosted offshore ... but, will not be able to do push notifications without going through big tech.