Session messenger android client currently feels unpolished while simplex seems to require it to run in the background for instant notifications. Is there an alternative that is better than those 2?
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Session don’t have forward secrecy. For more comparison check out this Spreadsheet.
Define your criteria for an ideal messenger. What do you need actually? What’s your security requirement?
Probably something that does not require a phone number while still using google firebase notification system? Basically a less buggy version of session messenger.
google firebase notification system
Why though? If a app has its own implementation this is a non issue really.
To save battery life I suppose. Also some phones may kill a background app even when told not to thus preventing messages from being received.
may kill a background app even when told not to
Most of the time this can disabled somewhere in the app permissions. i have done this for a couple of apps without much issue.
I have simplex notification service running 24x7. while rarely open, i never missed a message when it arrive (i use it as a message bridge between my devices). Nor I feel it uses more battery that it can’t hold a day of use despite it running constantly in the background. I’m using S21FE btw.
Other alternatives: Status(https://status.app), speek!(https://speek.network), Briar(https://briarproject.org), Cwtch(https://cwtch.im) and Tox(https://tox.chat/index.html).
Their is briar. It is fully decentralized and works p2p over for.
From my understanding briar requires both clients to be online at the same time to use?
Normally yes. But they also have mailbox application that kind of acts as a message queue both ways
No voice chat.