Pros and cons of each?

  • Google play has auto update, whereas f droid has semi automatic updates where it takes more effort.

  • The Google play flavor comes with support for FCM (i.e. push notifications via Google infrastructure). The f-droid flavor relies on regular polling for events (so that messages might come in a little bit later, though I am not sure whether it can keep a connection open for real time push notifications).

  • @nachtigall@feddit.de
    1•2 years ago

    The Google play flavor comes with support for FCM (i.e. push notifications via Google infrastructure). The f-droid flavor relies on regular polling for events (so that messages might come in a little bit later, though I am not sure whether it can keep a connection open for real time push notifications).

    Edit: as the other commenter mentioned, since you are running google play services anyway, you can use the gplay version aswell.