Android Messages
by Ben Leppke
Android Messages as a cross-platform desktop application
About
Unofficial Flatpak for Android Messages Desktop. Android Messages Desktop is a wrapper around the official Google Messages web interface. Run Android Messages as a desktop app, a la iMessage. For those of us that prefer not to have a browser tab always open for this sort of thing. Note: This is a community-maintained wrapper around the upstream project (OrangeDrangon/android-messages-desktop). It is not affiliated with Google in any way. Android is a trademark of Google LLC.
Permissions
Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.
- inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - network
--share=network - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - notifications
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications - talks to org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierWatcher
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierWatcher - system tray
--talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher - access to xdg-run/tray-icon
--filesystem=xdg-run/tray-icon:create - sets environment variable ELECTRON_TRASH
--env=ELECTRON_TRASH=gio
Who publishes this
Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.
- com.benleppke.AndroidMessages claims the domain benleppke.com; only its owner can prove that
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publisher:new-repo
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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