Project Summary
aTox is a beautiful, modern and free open-source messaging app for the Tox protocol on Android. Why use aTox?
* Open-source: free to share, inspect, and change as you like.
* Reasonable: sane defaults, no guesses about what you care about, doesn't ignore what you want.
* End-to-end encrypted: the only people who can see your conversations are the people you're talking to.
* Distributed: no central servers that can be taken down or compelled to turn over data.
* Lightweight: no telemetry, ads, or other forms of monitoring.
In a Nutshell, aTox - Tox for Android...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2019
ending with its most recent commit 5 months ago
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