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Beeper adds support for Google Messages RCS alongside iMessage, works on Android and iPhone

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Beeper adds support for Google Messages RCS alongside iMessage, works on Android and iPhone

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Android@lemdro.idEnglish • 2 years ago

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RCS is available to every Android user at this point, but that hasn’t ended the messaging headaches that come from...

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The way they got iMessage to work is by hiring a Foss developer who did something pretty amazing:

They reverse engineered the iMessage protocol and emulated parts of macOS that are necessary when registering an iMessage account on a device!!

https://github.com/beeper/pypush

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