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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android? (play-lh.googleusercontent.com)
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Does anyone know of an open-source alternative to Google's "Messages" app, which takes care of SMS/text messages on my phone?

I was looking for open-source alternatives on PlayStore and F-Droid but can't really find anything – most apps seem to target some extra purpose than simply handling SMSs.

(Edit: I'd like to stay away from the "Simple Mobile Tools" line because I don't know if it's open source, and I don't like the way they promoted some apps – forcing users to update to pro and similar.)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

RCS is proprietary. Very unlikely there will ever be an implementation that is open source or foundation driven.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seriously? The standard that we've been finally getting users on is proprietary? You've got to be joking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Very on-brand tactic by Google tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Rcs isn't proprietary, google hasn't given anyone the tools to develop with it on Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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