Google appears to be working on an editing feature for the Messages app. The feature is hiding in the latest beta.

This sounds like a nice step towards modernizing texting, but it’s a shame that Messages doesn’t have an open RCS API to encourage broad adoption across messaging apps.

  • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Have you looked into running your own RCS server or connecting to existing RCS servers? As far as I can tell, it’s proprietary infrastructure built on top of an open standard.

    RCS just lets the servers talk to each other, and there is no reference implementation for a server. On the off chance that you do manage to write your own implementation, it’s unlikely that Google or Samsung’s servers would be willing to talk to yours unless you’re a telecom.