Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.
Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.
Wild question I never thought I’d be asking, anyone know a stripped down SMS app I can use instead of the default?
I don’t want to see AI features and I don’t wanna participate in helping anyone build a LLM
I’ve been using the Fossify SMS Messenger for a few weeks now and it does everything I need a messaging app to do.
My recommandation, stop using SMS
Switch to E2EE chats
I’m not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.
You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example
pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app
As for SMS app, I use QKSMS
I just saw this, it’s available on f-droid and play store
https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android
QKSMS used to be The Answer, but they stopped development. I’ve heard Partisan SMS was an active fork, but haven’t used it myself.
I mostly settled on non-FOSS, unfortunately. Signal, Textra, Chomp for a while.
https://github.com/octoshrimpy/quik is an active fork of QKSMS
Alternatively, https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.messages/ exists
It’s not FOSS but I used Textra for years and it’s quite great. I don’t think it supports bubbles, but it’s worth checking out
Textra or Chomp SMS.
Textra is more feature rich but I had a problem setting custom notifications on Xiaomi phone so I switched to Chomp. Fun fact: both are developed by the same developer.