[guardian-dev] making Gibberbot as successful as Whatsapp without selling out

[Dominik Schürmann]

For building a push server: http://uniqush.org/

On 21.09.2012 02:30, Chris Ballinger wrote:
> Yeah, we'd use the native push mechanisms for iOS and Android. It looks
> pretty easy to build your own push server for iOS, I don't know how
> complicated it is for Android. Unfortunately, push notifications sent to
> Apple are not considered "time sensitive" (they may be delayed for long
> periods of time), their delivery is not guaranteed, and they are limited to
> 140 bytes, but I think that is good enough for our purposes.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Nathan of Guardian <
> nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/21/2012 12:24 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> How would you get through to devices behind NATs when the server wants
>>> to knock?  I guess it could be handled like VoIP, with STUN, ICE, etc.
>>
>> The idea was to use the iOS and Android/Google push services and/or SMS.
>> This is exactly what RedPhone does, afaik, as well as most of the other
>> messaging apps out there, like WhatsApp and WeChat.
>>
> 
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