https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak
Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts
https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak
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Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak
- Owner: yakyak
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-06-02T12:08:31.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-09-06T09:52:09.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-11T04:57:54.168Z (1 day ago)
- Topics: chat, client, cross-platform, google-hangouts, notifications, yakyak
- Language: CoffeeScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 18.5 MB
- Stars: 3,796
- Watchers: 98
- Forks: 318
- Open Issues: 103
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
YakYak
======
[](https://travis-ci.org/yakyak/yakyak)
[](https://snyk.io/test/github/yakyak/yakyak?targetFile=package.json)
> Desktop client for Google Hangouts *(not Google Hangouts Chat, which is a [different](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/issues/1037) thing)*
(This app is in no way associated with or endorsed by Google)
## Install it
We provide [prebuilt binaries](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/releases) for macOS, Linux 32 / 64 and Windows 32 / 64. This is the [latest release](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/releases/latest)
Check out our wiki for [additional installation methods](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/wiki)
We love [bug reports](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/issues)!
## What does it do:
* Send/receive chat messages
* Send/receive SMS/MMS (Project Fi / Google Voice) -- basic functionality
* Create/change conversations (rename, add people)
* Leave/delete conversation
* Notifications (using native OS notifications)
* Toggle notifications on/off
* Drag-drop, copy-paste or attach-button for image upload.
* Hangupsbot sync room aware (no bot name, proper user pics)
* Show inline images
* Send presence/focus/typing/activeclient to behave like a proper client
* History scrollback
* Video/audio integration (open in chrome)
* Focus/typing indications (mainly a design issue. keep it clean)
* Offer alternative color schemes
* Translations in 22 languages so far:
* English / Portuguese _(Portugal and Brazil)_ / French / Spanish / Czech / German / Polish / Russian / Hebrew / Ukrainian / Slovenian / Korean / Tamil / Romanian / Swedish / Japanese / Italian / Danish / Bengali / Slovak / Turkish / Arabic / Telugu / Finnish /Breton / Simplified chinese
* We're looking for volunteers to translate the app to new languages
**NOTE**
Yakyak may show up as iOS Device and Google may alert you that *"some iOS Device is trying to use your account"*. This is normal as yakyak is an unofficial client and it mimics the behaviour of an iOS device in order to establish a communication with Google Hangout APIs.
## Credits
#### Main authors
* [André Veríssimo](https://github.com/averissimo)
* [Davide Bertola](https://github.com/davibe)
* [Martin Algesten](https://github.com/algesten)
#### Contributors
* [David Banham](https://github.com/davidbanham)
* [Max Kueng](https://github.com/maxkueng)
* [Arnaud Riu](https://github.com/arnriu)
* [Austin Guevara](https://github.com/austin-guevara)
* [Mathias Tillman](https://github.com/HomerSp)
## Developing
This is an open source project. Please help us!
It is written in coffeescript (nodejs) based on
[hangupsjs](https://github.com/algesten/hangupsjs) using
[trifl](http://algesten.github.io/trifl/) on top of
[electron (atom shell)](https://github.com/electron/electron).
### How can you help?
You can improve YakYak in many ways:
* Core functionality
* Interface *(example: new themes only require choosing less than 20 colors)*
* Bug fixing
* Translations *(new translation only need 117 strings)*
Send a pull request, start a conversation with a
[new issue](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/issues/new) or participate on a
[ongoing conversation](https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/issues).
### Setup
Requirements:
- Node.js (v4 or v6)
```bash
$ npm install
$ npm run gulp
```
### Continuous build
```bash
$ npm run gulp watch
```
### Run it
```bash
$ npm run electron app
```
### Build Binaries for Deployment
*Supported platforms:* Windows (*win32*), Mac OS X (*darwin*), Linux (*linux*)
*Suported architectures:* 64-bits (*x64*), 32-bits (*ia32*)
```bash
# Building for all platforms and architectures
$ npm run deploy
# You can also build specific builds by using
# deploy:-
# example:
$ npm run deploy:darwin-x64
```
If you have [fpm](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) installed (`gem install fpm`), you can also build RPM, Deb, or Arch packages:
```bash
$ npm run deploy:linux-x64:rpm
$ npm run deploy:linux-x64:deb
$ npm run deploy:linux-x64:pacman
```
*note:* if you are building *Windows* binaries in *Linux* or *Mac OS X*, Wine (1.6 or higher) must be installed. It also requires a 32-bit Wine installation when building Windows 32-bit binary.
### Structure
| Location | Description |
|-----------|------------------------------------------|
| `src/` | Is where sources live |
| `src/ui/` | Holds renderer code (client side) |
| `dist/` | Everything is compiled to this directory |
### Acknowledgement
- All the users and developers of YakYak
- ["You wouldn't believe"](https://notificationsounds.com/notification-sounds/you-wouldnt-believe-510) as the 'new message' sound for some platforms and is licensed under CC