proton-mail-android VS TextSecure

For the reference project, I've chosen the ProtonMail Android App, which is one of the largest open-source Android apps that has not been modularised yet. With over 50kloc in the main module, it truly represents a monolith that is worth modularising.

They do. You don't need Google Play to download it. They have the official APK on their website & you can also download it from their GitHub.

You could just use any RSS reader to get a notification https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android/releases.atom

Curious how the Play Store has a newer version of the Android app (3.0.15) than the latest release on GitHub (3.0.14). Is there some other source repository than this GitHub repo?

For example, here is the code source for the Android mail app. Is is released under GPL-3.0 which **basically** says "you take use this for whatever you want, but it must also be released under GPL-3.0.".

Do you have microG disabled? If so, we sent a patch to them to fix the crash, https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android/pull/172

Proton Mail (version 918): World’s largest encrypted email service - easy to use, free for all

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.

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...

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...

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.

Telegram and Signal solve this.

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...)

Here is one: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

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