When trying to use the quick command npm run windows I am getting the error npm ERR! missing script: windows

Windows 10 april update. I don't get any notifications from the app,

Step 2 of the Notifictions on Windows directions is not up to date. There is no "setting for 'Show notifications in action center'". If there is it is not searchable. What is the new equivalent to this step in order to enable notifications?

This started just recently so i haven't figured out if it was something that i did on my computer or not just yet. But when i try to open the android messages.exe app it opens the window like its going to work and then all i get is the window says "Please update your browser" with other stuff stating that i'm using an out of date browser. I have verified that ALL of my browsers are up to date so i'm not sure how to resolve this. Here is an image of what i see when i try to open the app. Hopefully i can get it resolved because i love this app and use it daily.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all of your support, downloads, issue requests, and feedback! This project was originally built to solve a personal problem that I experienced and I'm glad to see that it's also been helping others in similar situations.

I am opening up this separate ticket to request some help with the maintenance of this project. I have been unable to keep up with all my projects and have neglected some of my other popular ones (to the point where I get pinged regularly to address them). As a result, I am humbly asking for the help of the open source community to help grow this project even further. I will be sure to include credits.

I will still be available to help review, approve, and merge any PR's. A lot has been going on in my life (professionally and personally) and I unfortunately do not have the extra bandwidth to investigate all of the requests/issues.

Thank you for your patience and continued use! Feel free to use this thread if you have any specific questions.

I installed the latest Windows version (well, unzipped and launched the exe from within the windows folder) and got the attached error message. My machine locked up and I had to reboot.

Old build warnings showed up on my screen, so rebuilt file in forked version in my user area.
Please find files here

Have been getting an Old Build Detected error on my Mac for awhile. I know that #40 describes a similar issue for Windows. I have just been checking back in to see if the build has been updated for a month or so, but hadn't seen it updated or reported, so I figured I'd log an issue. Thanks so much for this great work!

As the title says . . . The Messages mobile app is missing (removed?) the option to scan a QR code for pairing. It directs you to visit "messages.google.com" from your desktop browser.

The google messages doesn't appear anywhere in my settings to allow me to turn on notifications. I'm using the updated zips and I tried with both the tray and non tray versions of the program

After scanning my Windows 10 machine for large files I noticed Android Messages.exe was near the top of the list. This was very surprising so I referenced the filesize against your latest release which I was using and while the Android Messages.exe in your repo shows 67.9 MB my version reports `95.2 MB'.

The file size seems larger than it should be for starters. This is a chat program with no design elements. Why is it 67 MBs?

Is there any reason the exe file should be growing in size?

Installed from pacman, app works well but no tray icon

It would be really helpful to sign the app that is available messagesfordesktop.com so that people can install this easily in environments that require all apps to be signed.

Not sure how big of an issue this is as the app still works.

Error popped up this morning for me on windows 10

New -Old issue : "Old version detected". It took almost a year, but I got the message again (Win ver)
It DOES operate very well on Win 11 - for interested parties..

Icon in task tray is completely transparent, no icon whatsoever

Looking at the locales folder, the icon.ico is still in there and it looks fine

Im on windows 1903

Sadly its that time again where the app needs to be updated.
Please and thank you.

If you provide instructions on how i am more than willing to keep it going

The google voice web interface is extremely similar to android message's. Any chance of gvoice support?

The icon in the non-tray app looks like the standard messenger icon. It would be nice if the tray version had this icon. Thanks

Setting the program to Dark Mode looks great, except that the title-bar is bright white while inactive. For me it's dark when active. Setting it so that the color doesn't change and remains dark would be nice.

I'm on OSX 10.13.6

I just installed the app, and it wasn't there. I got a few text messages, and there doesn't seem to be anything that I can do to make it go away and work correctly.

would it be possible to add native arm support on macOS please ?

Hey great idea with this app! Is there any way I can run it in the background on startup on my Mac like the iMessage app for Mac?
Thanks!

If you don't have the internet connection and open the app, it will display the no internet warning, when you connect to the internet the app should try to auto-reconnect so we won't have to close the app and re-open it to get it working.

I'm using Macbook pro early 2015 and macOS Sierra.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Turn off the internet.
2. Open the Android Messages
3. Minimize Android Messages
4. Connect to the internet
5. Open Android Messages and the no internet error is still there.

Proposed solution
Set up a time interval to try to reconnect to the web server/service.

When using the version that's able to be minimized to the tray, the app is there but the icon is invisible.

When I attempt to sign into this app with the Google Fi method I'm presented with the following error message on the Google sign in form after inputting my email:

I suspect this is due to being packaged with an older version of Electron.

This Error popped up this morning for me on windows 10.
Not sure how big of an issue this is; the app will actually continue to run after dismissing the error.

A past post was closed a year ago, but no resolution.

Hi,

I'm not able to install the Windows version, I get an error when running the nativefiler Windows install. Here are the results of the two installs:

[email protected] postinstall C:\Users\vente\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\nativefier\node_modules\babel-polyfill\node_modules\core-js
node scripts/postinstall || echo "ignore"

C:\Users\vente\AppData\Roaming\npm\nativefier -> C:\Users\vente\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\nativefier\lib\cli.js
[email protected] C:\Users\vente\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\nativefier
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

C:\Users\vente>nativefier --platform "windows" --icon android-messages-logo.png --name "Google Messages" "https://messages.google.com/web" --honest --disable-dev-tools --single-instance --tray
C:\Users\vente\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\nativefier\lib\cli.js:89
log.info(App built to ${appPath});
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:443:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
at startup (node.js:129:16)
at node.js:814:3

I'm running Windows 10 Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362

Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Chuck

Hi, love the project

I was wondering if there is any chance you could produce a flatpak to make it easier to install on Linux?

Thanks

Now that Google Fi voicemail are available would it be possible to add a download button to client? This currently isn't available though the Google Messages website but the MP3 file is likely hidden in that source code ready to scrap.

I attached screenshots of what happens...it'll go to https://a-znachrichten.com/ (or a-znachrichten )

then it'll redirect to whatever website I'm on and have a weird URL (i.e., flowerandgardenideas.com).

Based on these threads, it appears to be your plugin:

1. https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/276907-a-znachrichtencom-creates-new-chrome-browser-window-on-some-links/?do=findComment&comment=1470919
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/opiph5/random_popups_caused_by_google_messages_launcher/
3. https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/jgt3d4/chrome_is_opening_seemingly_random_hidden_tabs_on/

This just started a month ago. Any idea why?

Hey,
Here is a simple shortcut for those of you who wish to have the app in your launcher and/or favorites.

Create and open the shortcut file

nano ~/.local/share/applications/Android-Messages.desktop

Put this inside

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0.0
Name=Android Messages
Comment=Send and recieve messages from your Android Phone
Keywords=Message;Messaging;Android;SMS
Exec=/path/to/installfolder/android-messages
Icon=/path/to/installfolder/resources/app/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Internet;Application;
StartupWMClass=android-messages-nativefier-f3cfa3

Be sure to replace /path/to/installfolder/ with your actual installation folder

Android Messages should appear along your other native apps

Given Nativefier's "warning on builds older than 60 days" threshold, automatically releases becomes even more improtant.

We need to set up a GitHub action to automatically build the releases and update GitHub with the changes.

It would be great to have an indication of how many unread messages I have in the app tray.

The app is connecting ok and can even send messages but it's not displaying text for any of the messages

If I understand it correctly, the engine is chromium.
Since Chromium is by now deemed susceptible to hacking attacks, I would suggest transferring to another more secure engine.

google-messages-linux_v1.4.0.zip does not minimize to tray in Manjaro

Did I miss something?

Hi,

Thanks for the great app and I have a suggestion.

For the tray version can we have an option/argument that will start the app minimized to the system tray. Would be very cool !

TIA

Would it be possible to host .deb installation files for Ubuntu please?

It appears that the URL has changed for the messages. Therefor the app no longer functions as expected.

Hi

Since today, I've Old build detected error (macOS)

Can you update the app, please

Is there a switch to send to start the tray program minimized?

Any chance you can upload this application to the Windows Store?

A few days ago I started getting a popup when I open the app that says:

"Old build detected - This app was built a long time ago. Nativefier uses the Chrome browser (through Electron), and is insecure to keep using an old version of it. Please upgrade Nativefier and rebuild this app."

The issue may have started after upgrading Google4 Chrome to version 108.0.5359.99. I've observed it on two computers running Windows 10 Pro 22H2.

If I click "OK" the app works fine but I am concerned about it being "insecure".

Just another feature that would be cool!

The Android Messages tray tool correctly shows in the Windows Tray but it's icon is missing. This is with either small or normal Taskbar size set. This is Windows 10 1903 fully patched x64.

Using Windows 10 Pro x64, I've extracted the tray version and it seems to run fine but it doesn't close to the system tray like it's supposed to.