I basically want to talk and send messages and pictures, video call is not really that important.
other foss voip clients not currently on f-droid are welcomed.
F-droid is just one alternative. Do a quack for “f-droid repositories” and make sure to add izzyondroid.
WTF, what happened to the built-in VoIP client? I just wanted to give you a quick overview on how to enable it but couldn’t find it. Did they remove it with Android 12 or 13? I’m pretty sure I still had that with Android 11.
Yes, those fucks removed it 🤬
Do you want an messenger that has voice calls or do you want a SIP client that you can use with your Landline phone Number?
a messenger with voice calls
If you arent particular about it being SIP specifically, Signal is fantastic (though not available on F-Droid because the Signal devs are paranoid about not signing their own code - you can get a direct APK from their site).
I use linphone sometimes. It’s not great but it is usable if you set the codecs to high bandwidth ones. I’ve been wanting to try Jami but haven’t yet bothered.
Follow-up question… Is there a good guide to setup with voip.ms? Or a good SIP provider for Europe/Asia?
There is fluffchat which is just client for matrix (an open source chat standard).
i tested it with voice and video and it works great. End to end encryption also. Works on all systems (window, linux, android,iphobe,…). Even thunderbird can work as matrix client.
best of all, just like lemmy you can install your own chat server and have full control
Element X. New and improved Matrix client, so E2EE, decentralized, federated, self-hostable, etc.
Pretty sure when they said VoIP they meant SIP/RTP, not just “internet video chat”
to use element I need to provide an email address. Do I also need to provide a valid phone number?
I use linphone. Not necessarily because it is good, but it works and I have found nothing
betterelse.
