New alpha with more quality of life features:

https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/tags

• Integration with lock screen with number of messages read [needs qa]
• Full background sync, faster startup times
• Tapping on a notification opens the chat of that notification
• Support for messages that are only links
• Call notifications
• Only notify the last message of a chat room
• Clear notification for the chat room once chat is opened
• Notification badge support (unread count in the side bar)
• Messages from groups should notify the group name in the title, not the person name [needs qa]

New alpha with features:

https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

• Pair Whatsapp with phone number + code
• Settings page now correctly uninstall the daemon from the device
• Block all notifications globally, regardless of Whatsapp configuration
• Text input now correctly renders more than 2 lines
• Show "typing" indicators in the chat page header

Hi everyone! I've been working on a qml Whatsapp client for Ubuntu Touch for a few weeks, now I think its good enough for its alpha release.

The app is not complete, there's still a ton of work to do, and probably many bugs. If you want to test it out, feel free to install in your device, and get back here if you find any bug so I can look at it. The Whatsapp protocol is awful to work with, I'm posting this early to gather feedback about edge cases.

Consider this app as Alpha, don't use it expecting to be 100% functional or complete, but use it to give feedback and help with the development.

Also the app runs unconfined to setup a background daemon, more on the architecture bellow.

Releases here: https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

Once its stable, I'll publish to the store. Now more details about it.

Architecture

This app is composed of 3 parts:

1. Golang Daemon

This daemon managed by Systemd connects to Whatsapp servers and runs continuously in the background, gathering events and pre processing them. Also:

• Manages your encryption keys
• Serialize whatsapp events, stores in a queue
• Expose a JSON RPC endpoint to read and send messages, among other operations
• Syncs users avatars, media, and other data
• Sends notifications

2. Python Backend

Event driven backend that pulls events from the daemon and acts on them, building a chat room and message database. It also sends events to the frontend, updating the message list in real time

3. QML

The frontend is entirely written in qml and communicates with python using pyotherside

In order to pull messages in the background, it needs to run unconfined.

@arubislander @pparent app uses whatsmeow, a golang implementation of Whatsapp Web socket. So from Whatsapp perspective, its like you're using Whatsapp Web.

The risk of being banned using unofficial tools is never 0, but extremely low if you don't abuse the tool. Its the same risk of using the WhatsApp Matrix bridge for example, that uses the same library behind the scenes.

@pparent said:

@brenno.almeida

Ok so another confined app does not have permission to access your messages and data, via this Unix socket?

Confined apps cannot access files outside their specified directories (config, data, cache), so they cannot use the socket.