✏️ [ FEAT REQ ] RCS support

[YannBirba]

Describe the feature you'd like

Is it plan to support rcs ? Is it possible ?

[spart0n654]

This is not possible for any 3rd party text app until google makes that api available for public use.

[ilmaisin]

https://github.com/Hirohumi/RustyRcs

It is possible by implementing RCS in the app. However, if one's carrier requires USIM authentication, it will require the system privilege.

If your carrier offers no RCS service, then you need to depend on Google. There has been a proof-of-concept 3d party client for Google's carrier-independent RCS service, though.

[YannBirba]

https://github.com/Hirohumi/RustyRcs

It is possible by implementing RCS in the app. However, if one's carrier requires USIM authentication, it will require the system privilege.

If your carrier offers no RCS service, then you need to depend on Google. There has been a proof-of-concept 3d party client for Google's carrier-independent RCS service, though.

Ooooh nice, I wish I cloud implement it myself but I don't think I can honestly ...
But thank you, I reopened the issue so

[theotheroracle]

https://github.com/vidit135g/Replify-Messenger/issues

this qksms fork claims to support RCS, might be easy enough to draw some code from !

[theotheroracle]

I wasn't able to get the app running on my phone, so I can't say for sure, but its promising at least

here's some other libraries that might be helpful:
https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta

[theotheroracle]

there's a lot of confusing information about RCS, but I keep reading that carrier rcs is going away and everything is relying on Google messages anyways, so rooted / ROMs android may never get rcs unless we reverse engineer Google messages app, which may be impossible to do anyways, and bypassing play integrity seems like a pipe dream, so this effort may be a pointless endeavor

[theotheroracle]

might need to get the EU to step in tbh

[YannBirba]

It's so sad ... Thank you for investigating

[theotheroracle]

one possible way this could work, is if you were to register with https://jibe.google.com/ and not publish the keys i guess ? which means the f-droid release wouldn't have rcs support, but that wouldn't be a deal breaker for most people who wanted RCS i think . it could still be updated through izzydroid, so it wouldn't be too much of an issue . i tried registering for a jibe account, but i kept getting some vague error about how my request couldn't be completed, likely meaning they disqualified my application for some reason, and are being vague about it so as to prevent me from fixing the issue, which is pretty terrible, but i'll try emailing them tomorrow and see if i can get an account .

[theotheroracle]

i did manage to install and run the rcs-fi-client locally, but without an account with jibe or some other RCS SIP provider, i can't do much with the software besides the --sim test messages it runs . i do have another sip account, so i'll have to check if that supports RCS and i'll try with that .

[jume2003]

i did manage to install and run the rcs-fi-client locally, but without an account with jibe or some other RCS SIP provider, i can't do much with the software besides the --sim test messages it runs . i do have another sip account, so i'll have to check if that supports RCS and i'll try with that .

is that working ?