sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 4 days agoGrapheneOS is building its own RCS support to cut Google Messages out of the picturewww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square265fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down11
arrow-up11.2Karrow-down1external-linkGrapheneOS is building its own RCS support to cut Google Messages out of the picturewww.androidauthority.comsabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square265fedilink
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·3 days agoLooks like scamware, only available on Play Store, and it doesn’t look like it’s open-source. I wouldn’t go near that.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoTextra was the go-to SMS app for quite a while in the enthusiast community. I don’t know what happened to it in the last few years though.
minus-squareJCSandt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoTextra claims Google is the reason they don’t have RCS support, something along the lines of locked out of the protocol?
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoRCS is not an open protocol. Never was. Otherwise every other SMS app would have already implemented it.
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAs a rule, I don’t use proprietary software unless I have to. So from my perspective it may as well not exist.
minus-squarejnod4@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoWhy? You aren’t confortable with a random guy developing an app having access to your conversations or to your 2FA codes from your bank?
minus-squareRegrettable_incident@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoTBF I used it for a couple of years, tho I don’t anymore. It’s a good app. Didn’t get robbed or murdered.
minus-squarematlag@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 days agoYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! I’ve been busy, ok?!? Now if you could stop moving, I can’t aim!!
Looks like scamware, only available on Play Store, and it doesn’t look like it’s open-source. I wouldn’t go near that.
Textra was the go-to SMS app for quite a while in the enthusiast community. I don’t know what happened to it in the last few years though.
Textra claims Google is the reason they don’t have RCS support, something along the lines of locked out of the protocol?
RCS is not an open protocol. Never was. Otherwise every other SMS app would have already implemented it.
As a rule, I don’t use proprietary software unless I have to. So from my perspective it may as well not exist.
Ok
Why? You aren’t confortable with a random guy developing an app having access to your conversations or to your 2FA codes from your bank?
TBF I used it for a couple of years, tho I don’t anymore. It’s a good app. Didn’t get robbed or murdered.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! I’ve been busy, ok?!? Now if you could stop moving, I can’t aim!!