Community-edition: Android port?

Created on 17 Aug 2018 · 17Comments · Source: ramboxapp/community-edition

Or if anyone knows an android app that already covers irc and discord, that would be perfect.

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You can take a look at disa.

erotavlasme on 16 Sep 2018

You can take a look at disa.

Sadly it only supports Telegram at the moment.

Ryder17z on 17 Sep 2018

You can take a look at disa.

Sadly it only supports Telegram at the moment.

Telegram and facebook. In the past, it also supported whatsapp...

erotavlasme on 17 Sep 2018

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stale[bot] on 16 Nov 2018

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I had a test run with Disa and it has terrible telegram support as only 10 random chats can be handled. It's a game of roulette essentially. Porting Rambox would be ideal.

Ryder17z on 16 Nov 2018

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stale[bot] on 15 Jan 2019

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stale[bot] on 22 Jan 2019

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Stupid bot.

Ryder17z on 22 Jan 2019

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Rambox is using the web version of chat apps.
Usually the web versionof chat apps are made for desktop, and not for mobile (it redirect you to the app).

So I guess a port is complicated

maxerbox on 22 Jan 2019

Rambox is using the web version of chat apps.
Usually the web versionof chat apps are made for desktop, and not for mobile (it redirect you to the app).

So I guess a port is complicated

I do not think that the problem is about desktop and mobile redirecting.
The problem is missing electron support by android since rambox is based on electron.

erotavlasme on 23 Jan 2019

The foundational problem here is more likely that everything depends on push messages to be battery friendly, and Android effectively no longer allows you to be battery unfriendly.
I know web apps can register notification hooks for Android now, but I think that depends on specific support?

See if something like Hermit can do what you need.

TheGoddessInari on 23 Jan 2019

That looks interesting. Thanks for the tip

Ryder17z on 23 Jan 2019

@TheGoddessInari thank you for the link it is interesting. There are two missing features really important for me: it is closed source application, the privacy policy declares to use many user data.

erotavlasme on 24 Jan 2019

While I appreciate your sentiments, @erotavlas85, relatively few things on Android in general are ever going to be open source because Android makes it trivial to pass a clone off as the original. To make sure that the binary you are using matches the source code, you'd have to build and sign it yourself or use F-Droid.

And the privacy policy is user-friendly. It's short, and specifies that they only use anonymized data with your consent. It's entirely optional. Norton Mobile's privacy scanner gives it the all-clear.

I'm not associated with them in any way, but it's the most realistic alternative for what you're asking. Android's battery rules effectively prevent anything approaching realtime unless you have push notification access, and I wouldn't trust an arbitrary third party, who you'd have to give full username/password account access to, to forward those notifications and messages without reading them, you know?

TheGoddessInari on 24 Jan 2019

@TheGoddessInari Android is an open source project released under apache licence 2.0 (linux kernel is GPL 2.0). I personally use lineage OS custom android that is an open source project together with f-droid.

No, the privacy policy collects many data. Of course, it is better than google privacy policy, but I do not like to share any data without having the possibility to opt out. It is a choice...

erotavlasme on 25 Jan 2019

No, the privacy policy collects many data. Of course, it is better than google privacy policy, but I do not like to share any data without having the possibility to opt out. It is a choice...

P.S.
Moreover, I do not like rambox privacy policy...

erotavlasme on 25 Jan 2019

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