Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    2 年前

    Is it just you can’t pay for the subscription or the notification process (MicroG GCM) doesn’t work?

    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      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.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        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.

        • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          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.