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GrapheneOS is building its own RCS support to cut Google Messages out of the picture
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Is there a reason we can't just all use Quik across the de-googled OSes? Vendor specific solutions only further the closed ecosystem problem.
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.octoshrimpy.quik.fdroid/
https://github.com/quik-sms/quik
While that is a good SMS app (in fact, it's the one I'm currently using), it does not support RKS.
QUIK handles bare SMS.
I don't see any mention that Quik works with RCS. Am I mistaken about this?
It does work with both iPhone and Android users from my testing. I ended up putting it on when I got tired of getting "person reacted to ".
Odd it isn't explicitly called out.
The parsed and properly displayed reactions are a QUIK feature, but it does not mean RCS is being used. You can try to install e.g. Fossify Messages and you will see the "A reacted to B" messages again.
Also, this reaction parsing does not work for all languages.
Ah ok, so its not RCS support but rather working around the OS not suporting RCS. Did some reading yesterday and now understand that RCS needs some low level system support to work.
Oh shit. So, grapheneOS is reinventing the wheel, when we have one? Interesting.
We don't.