A libpurple/Pidgin plugin based on signal-cli (for signal, formerly textsecure).
Developed on Ubuntu 18.04. Tested wine 5.0 and Windows 10.
Binaries are availiable at https://buildbot.hehoe.de/purple-signal/builds/.
libpurple plug-ins are written in C.
The signal client library is written in Java.
This project uses JNI to create a Java VM instance within the C part of the plug-in. An instance of the Java Class implementing the signal client is created. Upon receival of a message, a static method is called. This call-back method is a native method implemented in C. It forwards the data to libpurple.
This may be considered dark magic by some.
- Link to an existing account
- Use the provided code with signal-cli
- Generate a QR code with
qrencodeor any online service to scan with the official app running on a smartphone
- Simple Messaging
- one-to-one conversation
- Group conversation
- Register a new account
- Attachments
- Proper group chats
- Group chat management (explicit join, leave, administration, …)