> What "proprietary blobs" does Signal have?

As they say in the Github readme, FCM and Google Maps.

FCM doesn't technically require a blob — it's just that Google wants you to think it does. I reverse engineered their library and it turned out to be a criminally over-engineered wrapper around two broadcast receivers. So, the Mastodon app is proudly the first app ever to both support FCM push notifications, and be 100% open-source.

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landr0id 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>As they say in the Github readme, FCM and Google Maps.

Thanks, I didn't notice that. Reading this, I'm kind of surprised that Signal doesn't offer an OpenStreetMaps build as it seems like it'd be more inline with their philosophy.

	▲	tomtomtom777 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The app doesn't even recognize geo:.. links, which makes degoogling rather hard.

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nicoburns 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oo, do you have a link for your implementation? I will soon be looking at creating a library to support FCM (android push notifications) in Android apps written in Rust. And having a simpler interface with the OS (esp. if it therefore doesn't require building a non-syste library) would be incredibly helpful.

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GranPC 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Looks like this is the first commit where it was added: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/commit/a0cbf0fa...

	▲	nicoburns 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks! It looks like that repo is GPL though, which I respect but isn't going to work for my usage (where I'm trying to build a generic UI toolkit that can be used by all sorts of applications including closed source ones).