Ricochet is a metadata resistant privacy focused instant messenger. It’s main implementation is a C based desktop client. The Ricochet Mobile project is about using the new Go implementation of the Ricochet protocol and gomobile, tools for building Go on mobile platforms, to bring Ricochet to Android.

Current Status

An experimental OnionDildonics client that starts a Ricochet client on a phone and conducts a Ricochet protocol conversation with a Ricochet partner. It lives in two parts:

goRicochetMobile: The simple go to Java friendly wrapper of go-ricochet

AndroidOD: The Onion Dildonics client

A write up of some of the work and research it took to get here is available at posts/RicochetMobile