I do not wish to use Google’s Messages anymore. I’ve come across QKSMS, but I feel like I’m losing some features with their premium service. I’ve tried looking for the default AOSP app, but they’re not available anywhere on GitHub, which makes it really hard to update periodically via Obtanium. I’d love to see apps similar to “Material Files” by zhanghai - which is almost similar to the AOSP File manager. I was also considering Signal, but I don’t appreciate the fact that I’m supposed to provide a phone number.
Ps. I’d also appreciate contacts and dialer alternatives.
Simple SMS is what I use, I use almost their whole suite of apps. The ones on the Play Store are limited, but the ones they put on F-Droid are full-featured (It’s an open source app suite, but the play store versions are that freemium donation style kinda thing).
Here’s the link to their whole app suite on F-Droid, has all the essentials like file manager, camera, dialer, calendar, contacts, calculator, etc. The “Simple Thank You” app (also on F-droid) works as a theme manager for all the app suite, so you can set a theme you like and then pick “shared” as the theme in all the other apps https://search.f-droid.org/?q=simplemobiletools&lang=en
Most importantly, they actually seem to get updates unlike a lot of these style of apps sadly, I wish there were more options available that weren’t abandoned.
Thanks! Is there a way to send sms messages from my computer through their software like I can do with google messages?
Not directly, but you can use KDE Connect (Windows, Linux, and Mac are supported) to do it by pairing your phone and PC through it. It’s not as nice an experience as Google Messages on PC, but you can send, get notifications for, and reply to sms in your PC’s notifications after it’s set up