If you're using the stock Messages app on a Samsung phone, the blue dot at the bottom of a contact's profile icon means that both you and that contact have RCS messaging enabled.

WhatsApp is adding new choices for customizing your chats, with both preset themes and mix-and-match colors for backgrounds and chat bubbles, as well as a selection of 30 new wallpapers.

Early last year, the Google Phone app introduced a chat head notification for quick in-call controls. In Android Q, Google is working on a "bubble." ...

In addition to introducing a handful of Messages features, Google is rolling out new icons for the SMS/RCS app, as well as Phone and Contacts.. Update 11/20: As with the mobile version, the Phone ...

Sunbird has no plans to open-source its technology for bringing iMessage to Android. As such, we didn’t hear a detailed report on how this app works (or at least should work).