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Are there any android OEMs that ship Signal as the default messenger application?

by thecybernerd 7y ago

mattl 7y ago
Does it handle regular SMS and MMS on Android?
- climb_stealth 7y ago
  It handles regular SMS just fine on Android. It's great as you can set it as your default messaging app and for regular contacts it sends SMS and for Signal users encrypted messages. It's iOS where it doesn't work AFAIK as you can't replace the default messaging app.
- feanaro 7y ago
  Yes.
- h4waii 7y ago
  Yes it does, it integrates very well on Android -- very similar "invisibility" that iMessage has on iPhones.
- RealityVoid 7y ago
  Yes it does. I installed it out of curiosity and use it as my messaging application. But I think that using it like this, without the secure messaging(since I have no one to send secure messages to) you don't really get any benefit.
- tssva 7y ago
  It does but you will not be able access SMS and MMS messages sent in your prior SMS app in Signal. This has prevented me and based upon multiple threads found while trying to see if it was possible many others from switching to using Signal as my default SMS messenger. It used to be able to import your prior messages but lost the ability to do so and the developers don't seem particularly open to bringing it back.
  - ripdog 7y ago
    The SMS import still works, I did it just a few days ago.
    - tssva 7y ago
      They must have very recently re-implemented it. It had stopped working when they disabled plain text backup and restores.
h4waii 7y ago
Nope. Get this -- not even GrapheneOS includes it in their prebuilt images. It's better you install it directly from the source (either their site or Google Play).
- ryukafalz 7y ago
  Doesn't it depend on Play Services? I don't think GrapheneOS could ship it out of the box anyway.
  - jtl999 7y ago
    In theory it supports WebSockets natively (now) and I've heard from others that it does work without Google Play Services.
  - kop316 7y ago
    It does not depend on Google Play, even for notifications. If you have it installed it will use it, but it has its own notification service as well.
    - ryukafalz 7y ago
      Interesting. The last time I used the unofficial client for Ubuntu Touch, it couldn't send notifications because the only options for those were either FCM or APNS. I wonder if it'd be feasible to add notification support to it now using Signal's notification service.

Are there any android OEMs that ship Signal as the default messenger application?

mattl 7y ago

Does it handle regular SMS and MMS on Android?

climb_stealth 7y ago
It handles regular SMS just fine on Android. It's great as you can set it as your default messaging app and for regular contacts it sends SMS and for Signal users encrypted messages. It's iOS where it doesn't work AFAIK as you can't replace the default messaging app.
feanaro 7y ago
Yes.
h4waii 7y ago
Yes it does, it integrates very well on Android -- very similar "invisibility" that iMessage has on iPhones.
RealityVoid 7y ago
Yes it does. I installed it out of curiosity and use it as my messaging application. But I think that using it like this, without the secure messaging(since I have no one to send secure messages to) you don't really get any benefit.
tssva 7y ago
It does but you will not be able access SMS and MMS messages sent in your prior SMS app in Signal. This has prevented me and based upon multiple threads found while trying to see if it was possible many others from switching to using Signal as my default SMS messenger. It used to be able to import your prior messages but lost the ability to do so and the developers don't seem particularly open to bringing it back.
- ripdog 7y ago
  The SMS import still works, I did it just a few days ago.
  - tssva 7y ago
    They must have very recently re-implemented it. It had stopped working when they disabled plain text backup and restores.

h4waii 7y ago

Nope. Get this -- not even GrapheneOS includes it in their prebuilt images. It's better you install it directly from the source (either their site or Google Play).

ryukafalz 7y ago
Doesn't it depend on Play Services? I don't think GrapheneOS could ship it out of the box anyway.
- jtl999 7y ago
  In theory it supports WebSockets natively (now) and I've heard from others that it does work without Google Play Services.
- kop316 7y ago
  It does not depend on Google Play, even for notifications. If you have it installed it will use it, but it has its own notification service as well.
  - ryukafalz 7y ago
    Interesting. The last time I used the unofficial client for Ubuntu Touch, it couldn't send notifications because the only options for those were either FCM or APNS. I wonder if it'd be feasible to add notification support to it now using Signal's notification service.