GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
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We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a massive amount of other improvements and bug fixes beyond that too.
  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    33·
    10 days ago

    These are welcome changes but I hope they will address the elephant in the room sooner or later. They can’t go on depending on Pixels and hardware memory tagging. They need a roadmap for opening up the project to more phone models and they need it yesterday.

    They’ve drummed up some publicity with the journalist debacle so it’s a good time to use that. But people who hear about Graphene will want to have some phone choices. “Get an old Pixel” is about to age like milk.

  • jello@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    10 days ago

    I don’t mind finding alternative apps for my gallery and etc but RCS would be amazing. And I’m not sure it’s feasible for a third party app right now so Graphene itself doing it will be awesome!

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      I agree but how does RCS actually work? My understanding is that it is particularly difficult to implement.

      • jello@programming.devEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        Yeah it probably will be pretty difficult. Google has a chokehold on it but I trust Graphene devs to find the minimum possible surface to j trace with Google while having functional RCS. And just not needing Google’s messenger app will be a huge plus for me.

      • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        The Mastodon thread linked in the most said they are planning to get an implementation that requires sandboxes Play Services first, then they should have a better idea of how to implement it solely with the carrier. It is an open standard in theory, just not in practice, since it is secretive.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    The current messaging app doesn’t even have a search function. This is well overdue.