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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by reacharavindh on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:46AM (#13131624)
Thanks for that link. I'll go through the build process and play with the apk.

But even if I wanted to build my own apk, and run it on my custom Android build, it would'nt work right? Because of the need for Google Play store?

Verifiable builds are atleast a step in the right direction.

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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by viridian on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:14PM (#13132573)
Why do you need the play store? You can install apk files without it just fine, if you have the appropriate dev options enabled in your phone.
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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by kuschku on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:45PM (#13134124)
Signal requires the Google Play Services to work, and includes several proprietary libraries from Google in their app, too.
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