They really didn’t have to redesign a text box. Please stop reinventing the wheel. I don’t need another pop up in my life.
It’s impressive how modern companies with thousands of professional designers manage to make increasingly goofy designs lol
“Modern” (i.e. Apple-chasing) design seems to be hellbent on wasting as much screen space as possible.
To prove yourself as a executive you have to make the company do stuff, so people come up with reasons to do wasteful things. It’s all a circle of shit people being shitty to get ahead.
Okay, so I’m not crazy. I started seeing this today, and I had to stop and think “Wait, was this always here?”
Lmao same.
bloody annoying and ugly
Until I saw this post I thought my phone was just being buggy.
I don’t know how to edit the main post on mobile so I’ll just add this comment. The message I typed in the screenshot populates in a “pop up bar”. The message no longer gets entered where you think it should go and it looks like shit and takes up extra screen space for no reason. I really dislike this change.
They fixed it. It’s back to normal now.
I paid for Textra over a decade ago, and it’s easily the best money I’ve ever spent. It’s the best texting app I’ve ever used and I highly recommend everyone check it out. They still churn out updates regularly and the features are above and beyond most messaging apps.
The text lines up with the recipient’s text bubbles. It’s on the left, and it’s left justified, so it’s under the other person’s messages, rather than mine.
I could have sworn the old UI had the text entry closer to the right.
Fuckin annoying tbh. Can’t stand when giga corps do this and sense it’s required for rcs I can’t just go get a better foss alternative sense none of the people I text are tech savvy or able/willing to switch to something else and rcs is pretty essential for me knowing if someone read it or not.
If I could I would ditch all google and giga corps products but I’m way to poor to do that. And it’s so ingrained into society it’s hard to find anything that works with these proprietary shit.
Linux is free ig
Linux on mobile is no good, and the devices it does run on do not support the proper bands and modes for usable coverage, if the carriers even allow the devices on their networks. (A more US problem all around.)
dude, i was talking about desktop linux
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It’s free as in money, but certainly not in time spent.
linux mint exists btw
My comment still applies, unless you just use some basic software and a browser, it takes more time investment to get things working and maintain it.
Can Textra handle RCS yet? I bought it ages ago but ditched it when it couldn’t handle RCS
Nothing can without the blessing of Google, and so far that’s limited to Google Messages and Samsung Messages (whatever it’s called)
Great standard you got there. Fucking hell
I’ve been reading articles for years about how Google say they’re going to open the RCS API to 3rd-Party apps but they have yet to do so.
This is why I scoff every time Google takes jabs at Apple about iMessage. Pot, meet kettle. Until I can use rcs with Textra, they got no room to talk
They’re proobably working on how to track messages on the way, like “hey, wanna use RCS? here’s our com.google.rcs library”, which by coincidence sends every message to Google.
Your cynicism is warranted but a big part of the advertised value is that their rcs implementation is end to end encrypted. Or they say it is, which presumably someone (not me!) would be able to verify.
It’s so bad I uninstalled all updates and went back to the version that shipped with the phone. That got rid of it.
I tried to install other versions from apkmirror but the design has been in there a while and they turned it on server side. My P8 shipped with
messages.android _20230529_03_RCO1
and it’s gone for me.
I like it. Previously it would hide a bunch of icons to give the bar more space, now it doesn’t need to
From what I noticed they only added an emoji button though. This already is on my keyboard area. Maybe I’m missing something but at least you enjoy it.
And the emoji button in the message area has less features than the one found in the Google keyboard (no emoji kitchen?!), so I’ll never want to use it anyways.
There is also the new AI response button. But not everyone sees that. I think that’s the biggest reason for this change. It looks better than the couple other ways they demoed the ai smart reply ui.
At the cost of space for the actual content on screen.
I’m not a fan either. I will swap to literally any FOSS texting app that supports RCS.
Is there any foss messaging app that support RCS though?
not yet
I just looked through all the settings, there doesn’t seem to be a way to change it back.
Same. I installed textra right after and everyone will have to deal with getting SMS from me or not talking to me lol.
I hate this new layout. Why is the box smaller than the width of the screen? It was already too small. If anything they should have made it taller and kept it the same width it was before
If I had wanted all the extra bull shit that came with these updates I’d have bought an iPhone.
I think it’s an improvement, particularly for folks like my grandfather that have the UI/font scale increased.
On his phone there was basically 1-2 words that would fit in that old text box …
so his text message preview looked like thisThen maybe they should make it an option instead of ruining it for the rest of us because wasting space is the new hip thing.
I thought this was just me but I swear this is so fucking annoying
Completely unnecessary filler space
