Determining whether and/or when to provide notifications, based on application content, to mitigate computationally wasteful application-launching behavior

A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a target application, one or more inputs from an application, or an entity associated with the application, for accessing a module of the target application;
• providing, to the application and based on the one or more inputs, state data that characterizes a current state of the module;
• wherein providing the state data is performed without visibly rendering any graphical user interface corresponding to the target application;
• causing the application to determine whether the current state of the module satisfies a notification criteria,
• wherein the application determines the notification criteria based on previous interactions in which one or more users accessed the target application;
• and
• when the notification criteria is determined, by the application, to be satisfied:
• causing the application to generate content data that is associated with the target application, and
• causing, based on the notification criteria being satisfied, a notification to be rendered via the application or the target application,
• wherein the notification identifies at least a portion of the content data.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• determine, by an application, a current state of a module of a target application based on target application data;
• generate, based on determining the current state of the module, state data that characterizes a difference between the current state of the module and a previous state of the module,
• wherein generating the state data is performed without visibly rendering, at the computing device, any graphical user interface corresponding to the target application;
• process the state data to determine whether the difference between the current state of the module and the previous state of the module satisfies a notification criteria,
• wherein, whether the difference between the current state of the module and the previous state of the module satisfies the notification criteria is determined based on previous interactions in which one or more users accessed the target application;
• and
• when the notification criteria is determined to be satisfied:
• generate content data that is associated with the target application, and
• cause a notification to be rendered via the computing device or another computing device,
• wherein the notification identifies at least a portion of the content data.