zulip-flutter

With what Google is doing with Android sideloading, I'm not sure Google is a good partner for open source projects. As it says in the blog post, Zulip has a nice history with Google Summer of Code, but it might be good to let this be the last year. Zulip currently supports sideloading. https://zulip.com/apps/android https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter#get-the-app That could get awkward later on. Though I guess if Zulip wants to remain in the Google Play Store, interaction with Google is unavoidable.

There is a lot of truth in what you write, so I am just going to point out the UnifiedPush project[0]. Of course with the, rather large, caveat of that not working outside of > TestFlight or an analogous Android channel This implements a push service (caveat: Android only) that is less restrictive than what google provides, and allows the reuse of an existing notification server (ntfy, prosody, etc) by other installed apps. Since f-droid exists, this allows for a halfway decently user-friendly-ish way to completely self host outside of relying on googles server's and zulip, for example, could offer the ability to receive notifications through it if there's an a unified push distributor available on the phone. It seems that there is at least awareness for this in the project [1]. But with google tightening the noose around alternative wa

Heh, well, I'll take that as a vote for prioritizing that feature. :) (It's in our tracker already: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter/issues/419)

Could this be related to the new mobile app for Zulip, which is being written in Flutter?[0] (Zulip uses jitsi as a default meetings provider). [0]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter

Thanks for the kind words! For those curious, Zulip is deep into rewriting our mobile apps in Flutter (https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter). It's hard to predict the timing for that type of project, but the goal is to be able to replace the existing React Native mobile apps around the end of the year. We've been thrilled with the Flutter platform, both the technology and the community -- it's been just incredibly pleasant to contribute fixes for issues that are important to us to the upstream project, so they're fixed for everyone. I'd be curious to hear what you don't like about Zulip's attachments work -- I'm not sure what you have in mind.