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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[+] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They should add login and subscription handling on their website as well like so many do, with 30% off on the subscription fee because there'd be no Google tax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Is it just you can't pay for the subscription or the notification process (MicroG GCM) doesn't work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks like both. Beeper mini (and a lot of other apps) ask the play store if the user paid for the app, which is a heavily pretexts part of goggles services.. so using non-Google services means I can't sign into beeper mini at all. They can't prove I paid for it, especially since I don't have a Google account at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so no Google account. Yea, looks like Beeper Mini relies on GCM, so without an account there's no way to notify you that messages are to be retrieved.

I was really wondering if the issue was MicroG.

Hopefully the devs will be willing to work on using a notification process outside of GCM, even if that means polling by Beeper, once they get to a level of stability.

Though I think they'll likely work on integrating other messengers first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well I do have GCM, it's how all my other apps are able to work, even pokemon etc.

I think it's purely that beeper is relying on Google authenicating that I paid for the app. Could there be a cracked apk? Probably, but I'm not willing to risk using that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What OS are you on?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

CalyxOS, which uses microG.