microG plugin support?

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Issue created by BlueBubbles Bot in the BlueBubbles commnity on behalf of @zach in #server-bugs.

[zlshames]

I’m on a Degoogled ROM (CalyxOS) as well. Just wanted to throw my support in for using BlueBubbles without having to depend on Google Firebase.

As it currently stands, this would mean you wouldnt get notifications (without firebase) unless connected to the server. So you’d need an always open socket connection, which we dont do in the app. It would require quite a bit of work, and it would hurt battery life more.

[zlshames]

I’m on a Degoogled ROM (CalyxOS) as well. Just wanted to throw my support in for using BlueBubbles without having to depend on Google Firebase.

Same. The way Airmessage does this is fantastic! But airmessage lacks tapbacks and reply support. So we’re stuck with notifications but no tapbacks and replies (Airmessage), or no notifications with tapbacks and replies (BlueBubbles). I’m considering learning how to code for these apps codebase so that one of these apps can become a complete solution, but it will be a few months until I have time for any of that.

I think now that the rewrite is almost complete, it’ll make it easier to complete this feature Request.

The basic idea is just that we need to allow a foreground service to be created (when enabled) so that the socket doesn’t close when the app is no longer in the foreground. Once that’s done, we just would need to create notifications for new message events from the socket.

I don’t think we will get to this in the near future unless we get outside help just due to our current priorities