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chatwoot / chatwoot-mobile-app

Mobile app for Chatwoot - React Native
https://www.chatwoot.com/mobile-apps
MIT License
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chore: Make Android APK which is not dependent on Google #443

Open slfhstr opened 2 years ago

slfhstr commented 2 years ago

The current app is great, but relies on "GSF" (Google Services Framework"). A growing number of people want to install apps on de-googled phones.

I appreciate that the current android app probably leans on GSF for push notifications. However there are other ways of doing push notifications, and they are not (should not be) actually core functionality. De-googled or not, a lot of people turn off notifications because otherwise their device is pinging all day.

Providing an APK from Chatwoot website without GSF would be great. Removing GSF and having one app version which could be listed in Play Store but also be accessible through Aurora store would be better.

aboveagency commented 1 year ago

+1 for this feature! We would support the development of this feature with $100.00

I'm sure the dev team is already aware of UnifiedPush. Have they evaluated the difficulty in implementing it for Chatwoot?

https://unifiedpush.org/developers/android/

As an end-user, we would be happy with downloading the APK directly from ChatWoot.