Texting on an Android cell phone can expand to a lot more than just letters and numbers. Using a variety of symbols, you can send special smileys or small images that better represents your company.

For example, the code for the registered symbol is u00AE, so you would input it as android:text="\u00AE". You can then type in the remaining text between the quotation marks and close your ...

An Android user sends a text to an iPhone user That text gets converted to SMS, as usual Either the carrier network or iOS erroneously appends a “+” symbol to the Android user’s phone number ...

Did you know that Google Messages actually supports text formatting? Unfortunately, though, this feature isn't available to ...

When they are trying to text an Android user, the iPhone is adding a "+" symbol to the beginning of phone numbers. The problem isn't just related to texting Android users, but also people using ...

Texting on Android is about to get a much needed makeover. On Friday, Google announced a push to bring Rich Communications Services (RCS) messaging to Android users around the world. RCS is a ...

Despite how common texting is, its integration on Android has always lagged slightly behind, as Google appeared to focus on other things. Sometimes it wrapped the feature into other services/apps ...