“Within the next months, the Threema apps will become fully open source, supporting reproducible builds. This is to say that anyone will be able to independently review Threema’s security and verify that the published source code corresponds to the downloaded app.”
I’m no developer, but here are many… maybe there will be a way in the near future to build a native secure Threema messenger for the Sailfish-platform. That would be so awsome!
At least he claims that he ported it, I do not find it in openrepos and also in the web no other mentioning.
Does anybody know something about that client?
It was available on OpenRepos for a while, so a few people should still have it.
But it never was a full-functioning client.
It’s fine for sending/receiving Threema text messages but there are still issues with sending group messages etc.
The repository had to be deleted for legal reasons.
Or, to be precise, because of the lack of time the developer had to work around said legal reasons.
( no, Threema did not threaten to sue )
Should Threema really open-source their code so we won’t have to rely on reverse-engineered stuff any more this may open completely new possibilities. But let’s wait for them to actually deliver.
This is not a port in the strict sense of the word. Porting the client will not be possible due to the different UI and different API calls.
Kool-Aid Man will have used the Message API which is available to third parties. We won’t see a real 1: 1 ported Threema client on SFOS. However, a modified client for Android is possible without much effort. For Sailfish you almost have to reprogram from scratch. The source code can only give hints how to do it.
Open source here rather means that the source code is open and can be compiled for Android yourself with certain requirements.
Android fork maybe, but a port for SFOS?
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