proton-mail-android VS Signal-Android

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Curious how the Play Store has a newer version of the Android app (3.0.15) than the latest release on GitHub (3.0.14).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

Haven't used Signal FOSS, but as it happens Molly bas just implemented OSM support, perhaps when it lands you might have better luck with it. Anyway, is there no issue tracker for that fork? I tried looking in their repo and found it disabled

Try using the Signal FOSS version from https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Yeah I followed that whole story. Since then some forks have been created that do not care what Signal Foundation thinks about using their servers. Molly and Signal-FOSS for example, both compatible to regular Signal. Those two forks will not keep SMS support, Molly never had it, and Signal-FOSS will most likely drop it because they think it's too much work to keep it while staying compatible and up to date. I hope there is going to be another fork specifically dedicated to keeping SMS support. We'll see.

You can get a completely open source version without the Google stuff here: https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Signal FOSS removes proprietary google blobs https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Signal - Molly , Foss-Signal

Maybe they had outdated info from when the server software was not updated for a long time. Or, it's regarding the dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries, though those can be removed... and have been in this fork.