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The desktop app on a cellphone is unusable, like all desktop apps.
Use a local Matrix bridge.
This new update will not change how the desktop app looks. They're just copying over the code for the signup flow.
Edit: oh my brain put your and the top level comment together. Sorry.
Not an option. You lose the ability to share photos and videos, which I do constantly with friends and family.
And it's hellishly Rube Goldberg.
I share photos and videos through my Matrix/Signal bridge all the time just fine.
Calls don't work but that's about it.
Okay, I guess it's gotten more usable since I last looked at it.
But it remains a terrible solution to a problem that only exists because nobody made a port of the mobile Signal to a mobile Linux OS.
Photos have been working for a year now in the Mautrix bridge.
Waydroid seriously doesn't have persistence? Are you sure there isn't a setting?
If you close Waydroid in UBPorts, it takes down whatever was running inside it.
It's a UBPorts thing though: I have am ARM64 laptop running Debian, and Waydroid keeps running in the background in Debian.
Ohhh running in the background. Not data persistence.