Can Akka grpc consume data from non-Akka service

Question

I'm having trouble to understand the fundamentals of Akka grpc. In Akka documentation I see examples of Akka protobuf client consuming service from Akka protobuf server.

Can I use Akka though to consume data from a non-Akka protobuf service?

Answer 1

From the documentation:

To use a service, such as the Hello World service described in the server documentation, you only need the protobuf definition (the .proto files) of the service. No additional dependencies to the server project are needed.

I'm reading this to mean that if you have the .proto, it doesn't matter what the other end was implemented in.