Apple announced (via 9to5Mac) today that it's adding RCS support to the iPhone in a great boost to Android-iOS messaging...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/8055696

Would it be possible to implement RCS in Signal, if Google/Apple allow access to their RCS cloud infrastructure? Has anyone heard of speculative plans for that?

  • TiritibambixEnglish
    19•10 months ago

    Yeah so Apple is getting RCS but we can’t have it on 3rd party apps on Android.

    The irony.

  • JackGreenEarthEnglish
    8•10 months ago

    Are there any non Google/Samsung RCS apps for Android, like any FOSS ones?

  • @SquigglyEmpireEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    I’m sure Apple will block 3rd party apps from accessing the device’s RCS messaging APIs just like they do SMS/MMS/iMessage. Google unfortunately does the same with RCS (unlike SMS/MMS) in Android, so it’s not really feasible for 3rd party apps to integrate RCS support anywhere even if they want to.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•10 months ago

    the same universal profile as Android

    Actually Google Messages extends beyond the universal profile. If you check the current spec, there is no encryption nor reactions, yet Google messages has them. Apple Messages won’t for RCS.