Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users

• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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