SMS may not be nearly as popular as it used to be, but many people still use it. It’s still quite essential in a number of ways, and there’s a reason why it survived for so long. In some regions, it’s ...

Pulse SMS remains one very popular app for millions of users on Android, so it’s no surprise that many of those who already installed it run it on Android Auto too. Not a long time ago, it was ...

In part one, we saw how to create the bare bones of an SMS app. That is to say, we created a utility that could send and receive messages but that wasn’t exactly in a state to replace your current ...

SMS is not as popular as it once way, mainly due to instant messaging applications. SMS is still around, though, and people are using it. In some regions, in fact, SMS is still extremely popular. That ...

There are plenty of ways to manage your SMS messages on Android, from independent apps like Chomp SMS to Google’s own Hangouts. Fresh in the Play Store this week is a new Messenger app, an upgrade on ...

Many people are going beyond the instant messaging app bundled on your smartphone and installing custom solutions. One of the advantages of Android is the sheer amount of instant messaging apps that ...

Since 2016, you have been able to use Facebook/Meta’s Messenger as an SMS app on Android. That integration is now set to go away next month. Users that use Facebook Messenger, instead of Google or ...

In spite of being in existence since the inception of smartphones, SMS apps oddly seem to be going through a technological refresh of late. In addition to adopting smarter algorithms to segregate and ...

Surround and conquer is Facebook’s new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook Messenger for Android. By ...