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They really didn't have to redesign a text box. Please stop reinventing the wheel. I don't need another pop up in my life.
Yup hate the new update. I have a weird problem with deleting words too with the backspace since the update. Will probably revert to Samsung messages soon.
I hate this new layout. Why is the box smaller than the width of the screen? It was already too small. If anything they should have made it taller and kept it the same width it was before
Apparently Textra itself doesn't support desktop sync like Google's app, but there are workarounds.
However, does Textra support RCS?
It doesn't support RCS because Google's implementation of it (with encryption) is not open.
This doesn't seem correct. RCS is supposed to be supported by you mobile provider, if it isn't only then your messaging app on Android will use Google's service. The whole protocol was meant to be open to entice companies to adopt it.
I understand Google dropped don't be evil, but they are not a villain in every story.
What a weird evil slow burn Google is doing. AOSP used to be an entire open phone operating system for the most part, (aside from binary driver blobs and some DRM stuff) but with each passing year, they close-source everything. It used to be a big proud point Android users celebrated, "oh well I can go read my source code, unlike iOS!" Annnnd....nope.
I want a new mobile OS to replace the shit sandwich of Gappleoogle.
LineageOS is mostly AOSP and little Google stuff, which anyway you can remove without breaking the OS.
You can use an Android phone without reliance on Google, but it's quite some effort and possibly invalidates warranty.
I think it's an improvement, particularly for folks like my grandfather that have the UI/font scale increased.
On his phone there was basically 1-2 words that would fit in that old text box ...
so his
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Then maybe they should make it an option instead of ruining it for the rest of us because wasting space is the new hip thing.
While I agree this is bad, do people still use messages? In my country everyone uses WhatsApp or Telegram.
The only time I open the messages app is to get OTPs or something.
Yeah SMS is used a lot in North America, especially in the US, and especially by older people.
Yeah, that's true. You don't want to know how many times I've messaged someone on an arguably better platform only for them to say, "I prefer text". It's annoying...
I will just drop this here:
Please dont let Google also scan your Messages?
How do I turn this off? Google search results are of no help 🤔
Is there an alternative RCS App?
RCS is a very incomplete protocol, so the only good implementations are partly proprietary. Also it relies on centralized infrastructure afaik, and weird bureaucratical agreements with carriers.
No, and it seems pretty unlikely.