You'll find Google Messages as the default messaging app on most new Android phones. So, it takes away the effort of hunting ...

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their ...

Sending a text you regret used to mean you had to live with it or rely on a third-party app like WhatsApp to bail you out.

Now, texts could be longer, and users could send pictures and videos through text. Then, in 2011, the texting paradigm shifted again when Apple introduced its proprietary texting app, iMessage.

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

On an Android phone using Google Messages, visit the chat thread you want to leave. Tap the conversation's name to bring up ...

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 ...

How to enable or disable RCS messaging on an Android phone It should go without saying that RCS needs to be available on your text messaging app before you can take advantage of all these benefits.

Following that friendly reminder about its existence, I set out to unearth Android apps that tap into this possibility and offer up genuinely useful shortcuts tied to text selection.

Behind those colorful blue and green text messages is a years-long battle between Apple and a group of app developers working on ways to break down the blue/green divide.