Beeper Mini: Discover the app that lets you use iPhone iMessage on Android

Android users will finally be able to send messages via iMessage or virtually. By reverse engineering, A developer has launched an app with the Google system that allows you to send messages with blue balloons from mobile phones.

The application, called “Beeper Mini”, basically registers the phone number on iMessage servers to enable message exchange. This way, you can send content from any device compatible with the app, as if you were using an iPhone.

reverse engineering

However, the process was a bit complicated. According to the developers, it was necessary to completely “deconstruct” Apple’s message flow to understand how it works. The hardest part, according to Beeper Mini app founder Eric Migicovsky, was figuring out how to mix the company’s authentication systems to simulate sending from an iPhone.

“We jailbroken the iPhones and then dug deep into the operating system to see how everything worked,” he noted. “So I wrote new code from scratch to rebuild everything in our Android app,” he added.

Beeper has done this before

Previously, the app itself already allowed you to send messages via iMessage as if you were an iPhone user. However, the process involved using a Mac computer hosted in the cloud and responsible for mediating the conversations; This poses a security and privacy risk.

With the new method this is no longer necessary because communication follows the same flow that iPhones use.

Apple will adopt the RCS standard

However, the workaround may not be necessary for a long time. In November, Apple announced that iPhones will support the RCS messaging standard starting in 2024.

Adopting the new protocol not only opens doors for better security in communication between devices, but also enables the use of modern messaging features such as sending high-quality media, read confirmation, voice and much more.

If you like the idea of ​​the new application, you can download it from the Play Store. The application currently has over 10 thousand downloads.