Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android?

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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android? - SDF Chatter

Does anyone know of an open-source alternative to Google’s “Messages” app [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging], which takes care of SMS/text messages on my phone? I was looking for open-source alternatives on PlayStore and F-Droid [https://f-droid.org/] but can’t really find anything – most apps seem to target some extra purpose than simply handling SMSs. Cheers!

You won’t find anything RCS. Google didn’t release any API, on’y their app.

Silence, and QKSMS are both great.

Silence | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Encrypted SMS/MMS conversations made easy!

It’s really annoying they haven’t made an RCS API public. Do you know if they’ve made any statement as to why?
too busy telling apple to open imessage to open rcs