These are the best text messaging apps for Android. Text apps that are faster and have more features and emojis than your default messenger.

So if you fancy rebelling against Google's forced use of the Hangouts app and going your own way, here are five alternative SMS apps to install and bring texting back to basics on Android.

Unlike many other Android apps, you can't print directly from the default Google Messages app. There are some workarounds you can try, however.

The SMS app that comes with your Android phone will serve you just fine to send text and photo messages to your contacts, but many can't do much more than that. Luckily, Google Play is ripe with ...

Sometimes it's easier to type a long text on a real keyboard instead of a touchscreen. Android doesn't have it built-in, but you can view your texts on a PC.

Are you a confused Android user who wants to know why Facebook wants all your texting data? Join the club.

Looking for apps to readout text? Here are some of the best text to speech apps for Android and iOS to narrate short-form and long-form content.

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.