continuwuity/BEEPER.md

Setup

Server

• Use this fork
• Make sure email works (config)
  • Or don't use email if testing
    Login still needs an email address, so !admin users change-email user user@mail.invalid
• Set well_known.client if using delegation (config)
• Route api.server.name to c10y if registration is enabled

Android

1. Get an APK from somewhere
2. apktool d com.beeper.android.apk
3. Edit com.beeper.android/smali_classes3/com/beeper/datastore/Environment.smali
   • Replace these strings with the server url and name (around line 200)

         .line 50
         .line 51
         const-string v7, "https://matrix.beeper.com"
     
         .line 52
         .line 53
         const-string v8, "https://api.beeper.com"
     
         .line 54
         .line 55
         const-string v4, "PROD"
     
         .line 56
         .line 57
         const/4 v5, 0x3
     
         .line 58
         const-string v6, "beeper.com"
     

4. apktool b com.beeper.android
5. uber-apk-signer -a com.beeper.android/dist/com.beeper.android.apk
6. Install com.beeper.android/dist/com.beeper.android-aligned-debugSigned.apk

Registration

Seems to work fine

Login

7. Open Beeper and log in
8. When it gets to Syncing inbox... wait a few minutes to make sure it's done and then close the app
9. adb root
10. adb pull /data/data/com.beeper.android/matrix/account.db{,-shm,-wal} .
11. sqlite3 account.db "INSERT INTO store VALUES ('first_sync_done', 1);"
12. adb push account.db /data/data/com.beeper.android/matrix/account.db
13. adb shell
    • ls -l /data/data/com.beeper.android/matrix and check the file owners
    • chown u0_a??? /data/data/com.beeper.android/matrix/account.db change u0_a??? to match
    • rm /data/data/com.beeper.android/matrix/account.db-*
14. Open Beeper again

Linux

1. curl -OL https://api.beeper.com/desktop/download/linux/x64/stable/com.automattic.beeper.desktop
2. chmod +x com.automattic.beeper.desktop
3. ./com.automattic.beeper.desktop --appimage-extract
4. find ./squashfs-root/resources/app/build -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '' -e 's|https://api.beeper.com|https://matrix.server.name|g'
5. squashfs-root/beepertexts
6. Log in / register
7. When it gets to Syncing inbox... wait a few minutes to make sure it's done and then close Beeper
8. sqlite3 ~/.config/BeeperTexts/account.db "INSERT INTO store VALUES ('first_sync_done', 1);"
9. Open it again

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Issues

• The displayname and profile picture is sometimes not shown in the settings (but is fine everywhere else)
  • They usually appear after changing either
• Changing the email doesn't work yet
• The app occasionally crashes
• UIAA is not implemented yet
• Messages can't be sent if m.room.power_levels has events_default > powerlevel, even if m.room.message would allow it
• Beeper Desktop is weird with the room timeline
• Push/background notifications don't work