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    The Briar Project

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved App Development
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        A Former User
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        I stumbled across the Briar Project recently - https://briarproject.org/ - and thought it was interesting... Particularly the part about being able to use bluetooth, wifi and tor to communicate.

        Anyway, I emailed them about the possibility of having an app for UT, and got a response. I trust they won't mind me quoting some of it, because he asks three questions that I'm not sure of the answers to!

        • Is there an Android or POSIX compatibility layer?
        • Is Java supported?
        • Can apps run in the background and keep network connections open when the device is idle?

        Also, some time ago, there was some excitement about a similar project called The Serval Project - http://www.servalproject.org/ Does anyone know if anything happened there?

        Thanks

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          dobey @Guest
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          @3arn0wl said in The Briar Project:

          Is there an Android or POSIX compatibility layer?

          No Android. Linux is POSIX already, so no compatibility layer is needed for that, though apps are confined by apparmor.

          @3arn0wl said in The Briar Project:

          Is Java supported?

          No. One could theoretically include a JRE in their app to run Java code, but it is not part of the OS.

          @3arn0wl said in The Briar Project:

          Can apps run in the background and keep network connections open when the device is idle?

          There isn't an app level API for doing this, but it's possible for a user to enable this themselves with UT Tweak Tool. If all messages are e2e encrypted though, it would theoretically be possible to use push notifications as a transport mechanism as well (though this would not work for a mesh network case, and not entirely p2p).

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            A Former User @dobey
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            🙂 Thank you, @dobey. I'll feed that information back.

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