On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
one of the reasons the Signal app can’t be put unaltered on F-droid is because it loads in external dependencies from Google at run-time
IIRC, the APK you get directly from their website doesn’t have the GCM bits in it, and will work without them. At least, I didn’t have any issues with notifications back when I was running the website APK with GrapheneOS and no Google bits.
IIRC, the APK you get directly from their website doesn’t have the GCM bits in it, and will work without them. At least, I didn’t have any issues with notifications back when I was running the website APK with GrapheneOS and no Google bits.