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0 pointssdenton47y ago0 comments

Having actually built such functionality for a different android app, I can assure you that 'just transfer the file' is extremely difficult. Problems include Android API skew across versions, different OEM android implementations of those skewed APIs, and more!

For transferring backups from one phone to the other, I used Xender. Probably best to just transfer with an sd card, though.

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simias7y ago

I can totally believe that, but Signal already has most of the infrastructure in place to sync messages and files across devices in a secure manner. It doesn't seem to me that it should be too difficult to repurpose it to do an initial sync between two devices.

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