Note, this doesn’t work with any other (hypothetical) RCS clients, this is not a part of the RCS standard, it’s a feature entirely proprietary to Google Messages.
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I don’t think so, https://reddit.com/r/Android/s/dbT0PE4eft has a response on whether or not it is open source
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That is my understanding, is it’s encryption on top of RCS. So even if another messaging system were to use RCS you wouldn’t be able to read them.
RCS is open, but iirc Google is yet to open the RCS related APIs in Android
They have not and likely will not.
Excellent. Looks like Google is finally on the right path to making a good messager after all these years.
How long until they kill it off like everything else that worked well?
Every now and then, I consider using a Google product, and then I remember this.
RCS is not a Google product but the official SMS successor.
Wait, google has been shitting on apple for not supporting rcs for like a decade and they haven’t had E2E encryption this whole time? What a fucking joke.
