EvolveSMS is a powerful texting replacement app that makes talking to your friends quick, fun and easy! It’s been designed from the bottom up with the newest Android guidelines in mind to look beautiful and just plain work. Feel completely immersed in the app with a design that flows freely between, you, all your friends, and Android.
Main features:
- A beautiful and smooth interface for sliding between conversations so everything is just a swipe away
- Full multimedia support including sending pictures, videos, audio, contacts, GIFs and your location
- A popup that allows you full access to anything in the app and looks great
- Group messaging support
- Full Light Flow support
- 2 different widgets with lockscreen support
- Swipe to delete conversations
- Batch deleting messages
- Archiving messages
- Fully customizable notifications
- Password protection
- Full emoji support (850+ emojis, Android or iOS 7 style)
- And much more :)
Unlockable with the customization plugin from inside the app:
- 3 theme options: light, dark and black
- 3 different layouts: Evolve, Hangouts, and Classic
- Facebook and Google+ cover photo integration
- Facebook contact photo integration
- Night mode
- Apply addon themes to fully customize every aspect of look in the app
Unlockable with the feature plugin from inside the app:
- More MMS options (locations, GIFs and contacts)
- Message backup through Dropbox
- Private inbox
- Templates
- Scheduled SMS messages
- Personalized mass messages
Here are two different emoji plugins for you to choose from, choose whichever suits you best, install it and never worry about it again!
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klinker.android.emoji_keyboard_trial
iOS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klinker.android.emoji_keyboard_trial_ios
Please note: The app is completely free to download and enjoy for everyone! There are 2 different in-app purchases to expand on the functionality of the app and help me out with future development… If you like the app, feel free to show it and buy the in-app purchases in the settings menu :)
Permissions explained (there are a lot because of the nature of the app):
- Send SMS: allows for sending messages
- Read SMS: allows for reading messages from the database
- Write SMS: allows for writing messages to the database
- Receive SMS and MMS: allows for notifications to be shown when message is received
- Read Contacts: allows for contact names and pictures to be found and displayed
- Read Phone State: allows for reading your phone number
- Read Profile: allows for reading your contact image
- Vibrate: allows for vibration on notifications and haptic feedback
- Call Phone: allows for calling a contact
- Write External Storage: allows for saving media to the SD card
- Get Tasks: allows for checking if EvolveSMS is currently running or not
- Wake Lock: allows for waking the screen when a new message is received
- Disable Keyguard: allows for unlocking the device after a popup is shown
- Receive Boot Completed: allows services to be started once your device finishes booting up
- Internet: allows for sending MMS messages
- Access/Change WiFi State: allows MMS messages to monitor current WiFi state and disable temporarily if necessary
- Access/Change Network State: allows for enabled network connectivity when sending MMS messages
- Access Location: allows for attaching location to MMS messages
- Get Accounts: allows for signing in and caching Google+ cover photos
- Use Credentials: allows for signing in and caching Google+ cover photots
- Billing: allows for in app purchases
- If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me
Credits:
- Luke Klinker: ideas support and everything in between
- Aaron Klinker: Evolve’s beautiful icon
- All of the people out there who create open source software and make Android special!