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    11 months ago

    Your Google account is required because it uses GCM for notifications on the phone. The Mini servers act as a middleman between GCM and ANP (Apples background notification protocol).

    They talk about this in the docs, they didn’t think it was realistic to try to reproduce ANP on Android, besides Android already has a service.