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<h2>CrossWords and Play-via-Data-SMS</h2>
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<p>Play-via-Data-SMS is one of my favorite features of
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CrossWords. It's super-reliable, and works between GSM phones
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round-the-world without requiring any kind of server. Most apps
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have servers in order to harvest saleable infomation about you
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or to show ads, but CrossWords doesn't care about that and so
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has always supported this feature.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, Google's decided there are security problems
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with SMS (or at least that's their claimed motivation) and is
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prohibiting most apps from continuing to send or receive SMS
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(including Data SMS) if they want to be listed on the Play
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Store. And so I've removed the feature from the CrossWords
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"variant" that's available there. The feature remains, however,
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in other variants, including those at:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/eehouse/xwords/releases/">Github
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OpenSource repository</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xwords/">Sourceforge
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OpenSource repository</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.eehouse.android.xw4/">F-droid
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OpenSource "app store"</a></li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>(The GitHub and Sourceforge variants will install over the top
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of the Play Store variant without problems. With the F-droid
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variant, however, you'll have to uninstall your current
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variant first, losing your games and settings.)</p>
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<p>I've also starting working on a data-SMS-forwarding app called
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NBSProxy. With NBSProxy installed, CrossWords can communicate
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using Data SMS without the SMS permissions (since NBSProxy has
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them, and is the one using Android's Data SMS functionality.)
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Google says that apps whose core functionality requires SMS
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permissions will be allowed on the Play Store, so NBSProxy
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should be available there soon. In the meantime, you
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can <a href="https://github.com/eehouse/nbsproxy/releases">get
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it from GitHub</a>.
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</p>
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<p>Side note: It'd be helpful to know how many people use the
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Play-via-Data-SMS feature in deciding whether to keep these
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separate variants going. Would you
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mind <a href="mailto:xwords@eehouse.org">emailing me</a> and
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letting me know whether you've found it useful?
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<p>Thanks!
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<br>
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<br>
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--Eric
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