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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android? (play-lh.googleusercontent.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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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.)

Cheers!

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[–] starman@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like QKSMS is not maintained for ~2 years

[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

About that, see comment by @Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de in this thread. Apparently only the GPlay version is unmaintained.

[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use QKSMS, the only update that has been pushed in the last two years was a very small change in January '23 that corrected an error handling of question marks and fixing a start up crash. It is functionally unmaintained at this point.

The developer has ghosted the project in past years as well, dropped out for over a year but eventually did come back. It's never been this long of an absence though.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the heads-up. I've installed it and for now it's working OK. To be honest I don't mind that's unmaintained, if it works (I still use a 10-year old timer app that is just perfect for me, never found the like again).

[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know what you mean. I've been using a reminder app called "recurrence" that is abandoned and it looks like its from the android 7 days. When you find something that fits the need just right it takes more than lack of updates to prompt a move to something else. Aside from if there are security issues that aren't getting patched.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they're like works of art - no need to keep adding strokes!