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RedPhone (for Android) works fine without GSF installed. It just falls back to using SMS instead of GCM for the call signaling. TextSecure, at least the curre
by A3c4a 13y ago
RedPhone (for Android) works fine without GSF installed. It just falls back to using SMS instead of GCM for the call signaling.
TextSecure, at least the current Android version, also works without GSF, because SMS is used as message transport.
- dobbsbob 13y agoaccording to this it does https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/143 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/143 However, like the majority of network-enabled Android applications, RedPhone relies on the existence of APIs provided by the Play Services Framework. If you're avoiding Google Play because you don't want your device to "phone home," you should be aware that merely having Play installed (even without an account registered) is enough for your device to phone home. If you uninstall Play, however, the Play Services Framework will be unavailable, and RedPhone (along with many other applications) will not function.
- A3c4a 13y agoThat's not entirely true, I have an Android phone without any closed source Google junk installed (including GSF) and RedPhone works just fine using SMS for signaling. However, I do wonder if Moxie might be planning on deprecating the SMS signalling functionality in the future, now that GCM exists and considering it costs about $0.01 per SMS sent by the server...