Beeper app request (combined chat client)

[shadowblade2021]

Suggestion

Would love to see Beeper ported to pi-apps. (https://www.beeper.com/). Bet I'm not the only one who'd love to see it. Incidentally, LOVE pi-apps!

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It's not open source, and their only linux option is a x86_64 appimage, so unlikely to work (well) unless they choose to add support for an aarch64 appimage. Maybe start a petition. :)

It also reminds me of this, though despite that it still seems useful for users though.

[Lenni-builder]

Wouldn't it be possible to extract the app.asar from the x64 AppImage and launch it with an ARM Electron build?

[matu6968]

Wouldn't it be possible to extract the app.asar from the x64 AppImage and launch it with an ARM Electron build?

Nope, this app utilises several native Node binaries which can't be just ran on ARM without recompilation, for example of a core compoment of Beeper is beeper-client-sdk named beeper_client_sdk_napi_binding.node in the node modules folder which is proprietary and is written in Go though, it houses the communication to the services like WhatsApp or Signal and is the largest (around 130 MB). As an FYI the library has debug_info with DWARF symbols and is not stripped so it could be reverse engineered but it will take time and depends is worth the time, better off convincing them for a official port or opening the SDK up