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The most beautiful SMS messenger for Android

Language: Kotlin

#31 in Android
#5 in Kotlin
#5 in Material Design
Ask HN: What's a Good SMS App for Android? | Oct 2022
QKSMS, available on fdroid and Google Play, is the gold standard for SMS. It is free and open source:

https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms

What data do the Google Dialer and Messages apps on Android send to Google? [pdf] | Mar 2022
For sending SMS using Android I heavily recommend QKSMS over the Google/Android defaults.(https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms)

I'm sure there are other OSS alternatives but this one just works for me.

Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway | Aug 2021
This project, Traccar SMS Gateway: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-sms-gateway

It's based on QKSMS: https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms

QKSMS makes use of smsmms: https://github.com/klinker41/android-smsmms

I love GPL and FOSS :D

Google collects metadata from Android phones | Jul 2016
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It's not. Google stopped open sourcing a lot of their apps with Android L. IIRC the material Calendar app also isn't open source.

Source: I was working on https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms when Messenger was released.