YakYak

Desktop client for Google Hangouts

(This app is in no way associated with or endorsed by Google)

Install it

We provide prebuilt binaries for Mac OS X, Linux 32 / 64 and Windows 32 / 64.

This is the latest release. We love bug reports!

What does it do:

• Send/receive chat messages
• Create/change conversations (rename, add people)
• Leave/delete conversation
• 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

Credits

Main authors

• Davide Bertola
• Martin Algesten

Contributors

• David Banham
• Max Kueng
• Arnaud Riu
• Austin Guevara

Developing

This is an open source project. Please help us!

It is written in coffeescript (nodejs) based on hangupsjs using trifl on top of electron (atom shell).

Setup

$ npm install
$ npm run gulp

Continuous build

$ npm run gulp watch

Run it

$ npm run electron app

Build Binaries for Deployment

$ npm run deploy

Structure

• src/: is where sources live
• src/ui/: holds renderer code (client side)
• YakYak.app/: is where the app is built
• YakYak.app/Contents/Resources/app/: specifically all is compiled to here