GrapheneOS version 2025092700 released:grapheneos.org/releases#202509See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.Forum discussion thread:discuss.grapheneos.org/d/26874#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

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[โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

@GrapheneOS @topcaser I'm curious:What does it take for a RCS app? Does this involve spinning up your own RCS instance and asking Carriers/Google Jibe to federate with GrapheneOS? Or simply working with Carriers to support RCS setup on a hypothetical GrapheneOS RCS messaging app?Or, would this be a reverse-engineering effort?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    @tylan @topcaser It's marketed as if it's possible to make a new implementation and use it through the carrier support for it but it's not clear how well that will work in practice. RCS is largely built out of Google services in practice and we aren't sure how well it would work through an app solely based on the standard. Carriers largely implement it with Google services and Google Messages uses a bunch of Google services. It may not work as broadly without explicitly using those.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    @tylan @topcaser We plan to hire developers specifically to implement an RCS client in the future. It's not part of our near term priorities because it's too large of a project and may not go smoothly. We aren't sure how well it would go at this point. There are almost no other RCS clients available beyond Google Messages and the support built into iOS. There's a legacy Samsung one they phased out in favor of Google Messages and likely other now dead proprietary OEM/carrier apps too.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    @tylan @topcaser Samsung's legacy RCS app still works but probably only on a much smaller set of carriers than Google Messages. Google Messages did supposedly begin relying more on carriers recently but it's still clearly using a bunch of Google services and carriers are also clearly largely hosting RCS via Google services instead of actually doing it themselves. That doesn't mean it's not open to another app but it remains to be seen how broadly and how well it can work with the standard alone.

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