Conversations, Priority Conversations and Message Bubbles
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Introduced in Android 11 this feature has always been the deciding factor in choosing a primary client for me, and many others I'm sure. Being able to not have to open the app, while being able to read the chat and respond to messages would be a great feature, especially since the framework is built into android.
Example of Feature: https://developer.android.com/codelabs/android-people#0
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this feature has always been the deciding factor in choosing a primary client for me
ConnectYou is not meant to be your primary messenging application. SMS is a very insecure communication standard and should not be used for chatting. The basic implementation in ConnectYou is meant for receiving automated messages like TANs. The main focus of our app suite is privacy and creating a feature rich SMS messenger would not further this goal. So I'm sorry to disappoint you here, but we will not work on more advanced features that improve chatting, since it's not the intended use case. However if someone wants to contribute a feature like MMS support, we'll probably accept PRs. Offtopic, but consider moving to an encrypted messaging standard for chatting like Signal, Matrix or Briar to protect your privacy.
@ Bnyro we should probably pin this somewhere and just link to it next time. I don't what to explain this every 3 days 😅. Also we didn't consider that SMS is more wide spread in other countries (e.g. US).
@ Bnyro we should probably pin this somewhere and just link to it next time. I don't what to explain this every 3 days 😅.
Yes, agreed.
Also we didn't consider that SMS is more wide spread in other countries (e.g. US).
Interesting, didn't know that. In fact nobody should really use this anymore for secure messaging ...
this feature has always been the deciding factor in choosing a primary client for me
ConnectYou is not meant to be your primary messenging application. SMS is a very insecure communication standard and should not be used for chatting. The basic implementation in ConnectYou is meant for receiving automated messages like TANs. The main focus of our app suite is privacy and creating a feature rich SMS messenger would not further this goal. So I'm sorry to disappoint you here, but we will not work on more advanced features that improve chatting, since it's not the intended use case. However if someone wants to contribute a feature like MMS support, we'll probably accept PRs. Offtopic, but consider moving to an encrypted messaging standard for chatting like Signal, Matrix or Briar to protect your privacy.
Hi, this is off topic but I am already someone who uses Signal and Matrix. I understand not wanting people to use SMS, but it's a universal standard in the US still. My bank, job and doctors still use it for 2FA, reminders, and alerts that I have no other option to switch to. I don't like it either, but I wouldn't personally include the feature to read SMS in the first place if you don't want people to use it as SMS, or at the very least adding a closable warning stating the purpose of your SMS feature in app to say "Don't use this, it's not secure, and we don't want you to use this for your messages.".
In your issue you said that the requested features are what you look for in your primary messaging client and now you say that you only use SMS for recieving reminders from your bank or doctor (which is exactly what this feature was intended for), so what is it now? Why do you want chat bubbles and priority messages for recieving automated messages? You're stating two opposing things here. And if I go by your most recent explanation it seems you're using the SMS feature exactly how it was intended.
Client in reference to the spec not to every message I've ever sent. I'm currently using the QKSMS client to send SMS messages. I use the Signal-FOSS client to send Signal messages, and I use the FluffyChat client to send Matrix messages. I'm sorry I didn't use super specific wording to specify I meant SMS client. I want priority and messages bubbles because I want to know if my therapist is texting me to remind me about an appointment immediately. I don't want it buried in my other notifications. If I'm doing something else I don't want to have to switch to another app to confirm that I'll be attending. Its annoying. I'm not stating 2 opposing things, I'm stating that I want a feature that is built into android to make my life easier. I don't see why/how wanting to customize the way I get my notifications for an app, automated or not, is a problem.