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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)
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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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[โ€“] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 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.

[โ€“] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 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.