There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works
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The question is how long Apple will let it.

• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure the point of this is that the official iMessage servers are the notification server.

    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Sort of.

      All messages/etc are sent using iMessage encryption directly between your phone and Apple’s iMessage servers.

      But there is no Android push notifications from Apple’s servers.

      So in order to be notified about new messages in a timely manner without killing your battery/data plan a cloud server is required to trigger your phone that a message has arrived so your phone can then request the message from Apple’s servers.

      This is actually a really common implementation, many apps use Firebase or similar to handle push notifications that are only used to trigger a “pull” of a larger chunk of data.

      The push notifications being used here don’t contain any private data, they just tell your device when to collect that private data securely.