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Wanted: a single inbox for all non-email messages (SMS/MSS, WhatsApp, Signal, XMPP, etc) that retains the encryption on the protocols that are encrypted, but basically just lets me send and receive to all the fucking messaging apps from a single app/inbox/outbox on my phone.
I realize this is probably impossible and the only reason unified inboxes for multiple email accounts are possible is because all email uses the same standard (right?).
Oh! Apparently there are (or were?) a few apps that actually did this. None of them seem to be available in the Play Store or on F-Droid, but APK Mirror has at least one. Gonna test it out and see if it actually works with the latest version of Android. Apparently it's still in active development/maintenance.
OK, so scratch Snowball off the list. It doesn't work on Android 10.
Disa is also no longer worthwhile. It functions, but only supports Facebook messenger, Telegram and SMS. WhatsApp has been depreciated due to API changes and no other services are available. The hunt, possible futile, continues...
@ink_slinger got a link?
@Paul It appears to be non-functional on Android 10, at least when I deny it location permission and a few others that I can't see why a messaging inbox (note: not a messaging service) would need. And upon installation is does explicitly state it was designed for an older version of Android and may not function correctly. :(
@ink_slinger and the website seems to have been taken over by some web hosting company
@ink_slinger seems like we need a pidgin / libpurple client that runs on android.
@adasauce Too bad all the big corps were too greedy to stick with jabber as a common protocol.
@ink_slinger thats one of the things that gives me hope about the pinephone / linux phone movement right now.
people will *actually* have a choice about software. no walled garden, just developing what the people want to use.
@adasauce One of my first thoughts was: can Pidgin run on Android?
