Nothing Chats App Removed From Play Store Due To ‘Several Bugs’ Days After Launch – News18

Within only a week of its launch, Nothing has eliminated its Nothing Chats Beta app from the Google Play Store, citing that the corporate is delaying the launch till additional discover as a consequence of a number of bugs current within the present app.

For these uninitiated, the app guarantees to permit Nothing Phone 2 customers to speak utilizing iMessage with iPhone customers, regardless of being on Android. However, so as to take action, the Nothing Chats app partnered with Sunbird, which requires one to signal into their Apple ID to allow these options.

Additionally, it was additionally revealed by Kishan Bagaria, founding father of Texts.com, that the Sunbird app isn’t utilizing HTTPS; as a substitute, the “credentials are sent over plaintext HTTP.” Bagaria additional added that Sunbird’s “backend is running an instance of BlueBubbles, which doesn’t support end-to-end encryption yet.” However, Sunbird too has despatched detailed responses to Bagaria, one in every of which refutes the priority of sending credentials over plaintext HTTP.

Sunbird stated, “The HTTP is only used as part of the one-off initial request from the app notifying the back-end of the upcoming iMessage connection iteration that will follow via a standalone communication channel. From the start, Sunbird has been focused on security.”

Nothing is but to launch an official response to Texts.com’s detailed submit in regards to the Nothing Chats app.

With that stated, shortly after Nothing launched the Chats app, Apple introduced that it was lastly going to begin supporting RCS for higher text-based dialog with Android gadgets—supporting options like sending high-resolution media information, learn receipts, typing indicators, and extra. RCS performance is anticipated to come back to iPhones subsequent yr, and it’ll proceed to work alongside iMessage, and this transfer will get Android customers an official different to apps like Sunbird, and now, utilizing these apps could now not be a necessity.