Adapting Android app to Light Phone Tools, providing minimalist phone with secure messaging

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for kaiOS there is a similar proposal: Delta.chat for kaios, but generally there is not enough interest nor any money (money does help with motivation) in developing for those niche/smaller platforms.

Non the less for kaiOS I even started efforts: integrate jsonrpc by Simon-Laux · Pull Request #3301 · deltachat/deltachat-core-rust · GitHub is one of the steps to make it happen.

Instead it is a rust or c library/application which uses the email api’s (IMAP and SMTP) to talk to the email network.

I’m willing to help to make it happen, though I don’t have the time, money or a light phone (to test) to do it.
I think it would be better to ask the light phone folks directly, deltachat is probably easier to implement than the other messengers, because we have a core library with an high-level api that provides functions like getChatList, getChatMessages, sendMessage.
So after you have figured out how to talk with DC on this platform you only need to make an UI for it, which is not that much work, considering that you only want to support text messages anyway, of the other messages you could just say what type it is and when you come back home to your computer you can view them in the normal delta chat client.

And the “how to talk with dc” is easy if they use java for the ui, because they could just take this part from dc-android.

We have started already several alternative client projects:

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