Are there any apps that support RCS that aren’t made by Google or a crappy cellular provider (ie: bloatware Verizon apps)?

I appreciate the features RCS has, but I’d love to get that without sending it all to Google with a “trust us” approach to backdoor keys. The documentation I looked at indicated that anyone could setup an app to support RCS and communicate with Google’s RCS users, but I can’t find any apps that actually do that.

Also would love to be able to message from multiple devices using RCS, which Google has working in their web app.

  • FelipeFelop@discuss.onlineEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    As far as I understand it, there is an API but as with all APIs you need a key/license/magic number to use it.

    So far, Google has allowed access to Samsung, a carrier version and no one else.

    • Mikel@lemmy.farley.proOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I assumed you’d have to interface with Google to get messages to/from other RCS users using their app, but does that not happen via a bridge-server?