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It depends on non-free Google Play Services for push notifications, which puts you into a requirement to use an unmodified Google Android, which is potentially dangerous for a privacy app like this.
Anyways, when it comes to E2EE IMs, Matrix ecosystem is much better.
They distribute an apk that uses a websocket for notifications. It's very hidden, which I do not understand in the slightest, but it exists.
https://signal.org/android/apk/
They make it seem dangerous to use, and don't even explain why someone would need it. That needs improvement imo.
They used to have it on the normal Download page ages ago but they seem to only provide it to avoid a shitstorm tbh! :/
Thank you. At the moment only two of my friends use Signal, but it's nice to know.
an interesting oddity: on my non-rooted xperia, signal thinks that i don't have play services and so it falls back to… polling. every five minutes. killing my battery and my logs.
i had to put signal into the restricted battery group, which means no notifications. i anxiously await the new molly, as i already have a unified push environment. it looks like the migration will be a bit delicate.
I find mstrix's E2E encryption design cumbersome and unintuitive to a point where id just prefer it off.