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.

Blue dots and chat icons in Android's messaging apps aren't random. Learn what they mean and how they change the way your ...

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.

Spotted blue text bubbles on an Android phone recently? No, it's not a trick. Instead it's a relatively new feature, and here ...

Text messaging has become ubiquitous, replacing the phone call to communicate quickly. Check out the best texting apps!

But the text editing works just between iPhone and iMessages texts. Google looks to be doing something similar with the Android Messages app.

Google produced a handy animation on how text scheduling works in Android Messages, but you may need to update your system and the app before you can use it.

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 ...