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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

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

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    Before anyone tries, Beeper mini on the play store won’t function without official Google play services. I emailed support to ask if there was another way I could pay for the subscription, succinctly, “no plans for that”.

    Bummer.

    • Gogo Sempai@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year 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.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

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

      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year 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.