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News-Android-App		TextSecure
	Project
6	Mentions	985
667	Stars	24,864
0.6%	Growth	0.7%
9.4	Activity	9.9
6 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

News-Android-App

Posts with mentions or reviews of News-Android-App. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-10.

Github vs fdroid
1 project | /r/androidapps | 26 Aug 2022
20+ Trending and Popular Java Open Source Project
19 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2022

News Android
⟳ 0 apps added, 32 updated at f-droid.org
11 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 10 Nov 2021

Nextcloud News (version 0.9.9.64): Android App for Nextcloud News
⟳ 5 apps added, 44 updated at f-droid.org
16 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 31 Oct 2021

News (version 0.9.9.63): News/feed reader for Nextcloud/ownCloud
best open source RSS reader
1 project | /r/androidapps | 27 Sep 2021

I use this https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android It has everything I need
Foss RSS Feed With Widget?
1 project | /r/fossdroid | 11 Jan 2021

Nextcloud news

TextSecure

Posts with mentions or reviews of TextSecure. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.

The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2024

Moxie's reasons for disallowing Signal distribution via F-droid always rang a little flat to me ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 ). Lots of chatter about the supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store, and as a result fewer eyes independently building and testing the Signal code base. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but independent and reproducible builds seem like a net positive for everyone. Always struggled to understand releasing code as open source without taking advantage of the community's willingness to build and test. Looking at it in a new light after the XZ backdoor, and Jia Tan's interactions with other FOSS folk.
WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
Signal: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024

Signal has documentation on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024

There's nothing on Signal blog as of yet, but Signal's git repository was tagged with v7.0.0 yesterday and we can see from the commit history since the previously tagged version (v6.74.4) that there will be a setting to hide one's phone number [1], as well as disabling the previous default behavior of advertising that one is on Signal to all their contacts already using it [2].
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8797236b5... (PNP stands for "Phone Number Privacy")
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/6097e6c30...
What are you shocked people are still doing nowadays?
2 projects | /r/AskReddit | 11 Dec 2023

Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp.
Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
2 projects | /r/apple | 9 Dec 2023

Telegram and Signal solve this.
Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications
1 project | /r/technology | 9 Dec 2023

Sadly yes: Looks like an open issue 13290 for Signal, sounds like they were/are indeed still interacting through google's push notification service, wat, and per a link at that issue it was a chore for Tutanota to break away once they realised it was a problem some years ago (though at least they thought about it years ago? wtf Signal...)
Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering at Meta
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023

Here is one: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...
Are Signal Notifications Encrypted ?
2 projects | /r/signal | 7 Dec 2023
Facebook & Messenger finally get end-to-end encryption
1 project | /r/signal | 7 Dec 2023

Rule 1: Posts to r/signal must relate to Signal.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing News-Android-App and TextSecure you can also consider the following projects:

gitbook-android - An android app to read gitbook in the offline mode.

undiscord - Undiscord - Delete all messages in a Discord server / channel or DM (Easy and fast) Bulk delete

wechat - A High Copy WeChat ,SNS APP (高仿微信)

Signal-TLS-Proxy

WordPress-Android - WordPress for Android

duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

AmazeFileManager - Material design file manager for Android

session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

HomeMirror - Android application powering the mirror in my house

MaterialAudiobookPlayer - Minimalistic audiobook player

Twidere-Android

Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".