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There is Telegram-FOSS [0]. I believe they have removed the binaries. It's also the version you can find on F-Droid. Edit: Also, the maintainer of the Android
by _jomo 11y ago
There is Telegram-FOSS [0]. I believe they have removed the binaries. It's also the version you can find on F-Droid.
Edit: Also, the maintainer of the Android app is making all his changes locally and then submits all of them in one giant commit. There are pull requests, but he just includes these in his giant commits.
People do have complained about this [1][2], but he obviously doesn't (want to) understand git.
0: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS/issues https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS/issues
1: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76 https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76
2: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/1007 https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/1007
- dethstar 11y agoThe telegram client is open source. But the server side isn't. At least that's what i gathered last time I read about it.
- tptacek 11y agoWhy is there a binary blob in their Android repo, and what does it do? Is it just compiled open-source Telegram code?
- izacus 11y agoLooking at it, the libs/arch/.so files are just compiled JNI/NDK libraries compiled from source of jni/* files (that's completely standard for native code on Android). Usually the compiled libs aren't checked into the source control though. Taking my paranoid glasses off, I'd guess they're checked in so contributors don't have to deal with setting up NDK to compile the app.