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Yes, someone below commented that telegram can now be built without dependency on the play framework, apparently since at least 6 months ago. I think that is a

• sasvari 9y ago
  The apk can be directly downloaded on their website [0]. It is signed by OWS, runs without gapps installed via websockets and should be 'auto-updating'. f-droid would be nice, I agree. I did not really follow the whole political discussion about why moxie refuses to cooperate, but at least I can use signal again after some years without gapps. [0] https://signal.org/android/apk/ https://signal.org/android/apk/
  • kuschku 9y ago
    > I did not really follow the whole political discussion about why moxie refuses to cooperate, but at least I can use signal again after some years without gapps. F-Droid offers two options (a) they build your app, or (b) you use reproducible builds, they rebuild your app, and verify that it produces the same result. Moxie raged that people should trust him instead of F-Droid for builds, so (a) wouldn’t be an option, and was awfully silent about (b), especially considering that Signal now has reproducible builds, but he refuses to allow that option, too.
• masklinn 9y ago
  > someone below commented that telegram can now be built without dependency on the play framework Do you mean "signal"? Telegram is very specifically the pseudo-secure messenger shit-talking Signal and Marlinspike.
  • jabot 9y ago
    Yes. My bad, i meant signal. m(