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Why is there no mobile version of Pidgin?

Gary Kramlich on February 01, 2024

We frequently get asked when a mobile version of Pidgin will be available or why it doesn't exist. There's actually quite a bit to it which makes f...
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Sergey Ponomarev

The PostmarketOS which is a Linux for phones doesn't have this restrictions.
Similarly in the F-Droid store of FOSS apps should be ok and it has many chat clients.
For the push notifications things are more complicated but there are some solutions that may be used.

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Gary Kramlich

We have extremely limited resources (people) working on pidgin and pidgin related tools, focusing on something niche isn't something the core development team can seriously consider.

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klutt

Very interesting and a bit sad to hear. Won't affect me much though. I'm not using a smart phone.