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I got a new Android phone two weeks ago, Google's default messaging app has turned into such a mess that I've replaced it with one from F-Droid already - and I'm liable to do the same with Photos.

I think this will have precisely zero impact on "custom ROM fans".

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What app do you recommend from F-Droid? I've been looking for an alternative as well but none of the ones in the Play Store look appealing to me.

Check out Simple SMS Messenger[1], been using it since Signal dropped SMS support.

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.smsmes...

[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.thanky...

[3]: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger

Slow response, sorry - too soon to say I recommend it but I'm currently using Simple SMS Messenger as mentioned in a sibling comment. Not at all fancy, works fine so far.

Google could have pretty much owned the entire messaging ecosystem today had they just done it properly to start with.

When Android was new, you had to wait for eventually Skype to do an Android release. Then there was Hangout, Talk, Duo, Meet, ... and of course the built in SMS app.

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