You'll find Google Messages as the default messaging app on most new Android phones. So, it takes away the effort of hunting ...

On Messages for Android, a blue dot or chat icon indicates that the specific conversation or contact you're talking to has ...

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 ...

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

The SMS tool is one of the most basic, reliable and unchanged features of any phone, with even the most backward of tech users usually able to work out how to send a simple text message.

To like a text message on Android, ensure you and the sender have chat features enabled in your messaging app. Then tap and hold the message you want to like, and press the thumbs-up emoji.

It's been a while since we last looked at Android text messaging replacements. Our previous choice was Google Voice, but with that app being rolled into Hangouts, it seems like it's time for an ...

There are quite a few things that could be preventing you from sending text messages on an Android phone.

Apple and Google have each made big strides with their messaging apps. But when it comes to cross-platform messaging, they've made a mess.

Many people do still use SMS, however, not least to communicate with friends and family who may not have the same messaging apps installed or who are on a different mobile operating system. If you ...