These are the best text messaging apps for Android. Text apps that are faster and have more features and emojis than your default messenger.

On Messages for Android, a blue dot or chat icon indicates that the specific conversation or contact you're talking to has ...

You only have the option to delete a text for everyone if both parties are using RCS messaging. To delete a sent message, long press on it until you see options at the top. Beside the edit button ...

Google is pushing ahead with plans to upgrade Android text messaging in the United States. By the end of this year, the company expects to broadly roll out RCS Chat through its Android Messages ...

Texting From Android to iPhone? Google's New Update Might Make It Quirkier Apple phones will see emoji reactions from Android users as SMS messages.

iPhone users may notice their messages don't reach Android phones, but after a decade of compatibility issues between the two, that's about to change.

Texting on Android is about to get a much needed makeover. On Friday, Google announced a push to bring Rich Communications Services (RCS) messaging to Android users around the world.

Specifically, while iPhone users are safe texting other iPhones, and Android users can securely text other Androids, sending messages between the two devices may be vulnerable… ...

"It's time for Apple to fix texting," Google says, urging it to adopt a newer comms standard that improves messaging between iPhones and Androids.

Android text selection shortcut #10: Websites Last but not least, whenever you next encounter a web address that isn’t already linked and tappable, don’t waste time with the old-fashioned copy ...

OS 26 could finally bring end-to-end encryption to RCS, securing conversations between iPhone and Android users with the MLS protocol.