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[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.2.7 published to the Beta Channel

★ Conversation avatars can now be disabled

★ Added Sms Blaster feature to send an Sms message to multi recipients. In the Conversation List menu
[Android Apps and Games] scottjb:
While I am now thoroughly confused about the vibration conversations, I thought this is what was added a few days back, but testing shows it's not.

Will this update let me have vibration when the phone is in vibrate mode and no vibration when the phone is in sound mode? My only complaint is I cannot suppress vibration when sound is on and still have vibration when the phone is in vibrate mode.

One other observation I found interesting. If someone sends me the same message more than once, I only receive the first one. Is that the intended behavior? I switched to a different messaging app and I could receive the same message three times in a row. When I switched back to Material Messaging, I only received the first one.

Request: collapse all the sections by default in Settings rather than expanding the theme section. It would also be nice to only allow one section expanded at a time. For example, if I had the theme section expanded, then expand the notification section, automatically collapse the theme section. I realize this is personal preference. What's there now is is still an improvement over the previous version.
[Android Apps and Games] BreckZeBoulay:
Yes !

+1
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
If you disable "Vibration" in the Settings Drawer no vibration will ever play for any notifications... unless you enable "Allow in Vibration Mode" (enabled by default), then you will only receive vibrations for notifications when the phone is in vibration mode. Yes, you can suppress vibration when sound is on and still have vibration when the phone is in vibrate mode.

Duplicate messages are filtered to account for carrier issues sending phones duplicate messages. Carriers notoriously send phones duplicate Sms and Mms, my app successfully deals with this carrier level issues. Thus if someone sends you the same message more than once, it'll be filtered.

Maybe I'll play with the collapsing Settings Drawer sections in the future :)
[Android Apps and Games] BreckZeBoulay:
where is it ?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
In the Conversations section.
[Android Apps and Games] scottjb:
Thanks for this. :) I assume this is in the current beta, which I do not have. I think your betas get released pretty quickly so it shouldn't be long.

I don't agree with one, though it's obviously your call on how the app will work. I prefer the app not make a decision to filter messages, particularly if someone meant to send me a message more than once. I rarely saw duplicate messages when using any other messaging app.

Thanks for considering. :good:

BTW, you should give the opportunity to donate more than $1 at a time. I had to donate several times to give you what many other messaging apps cost.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
I'll add a setting to disable duplicate message filtering ?
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
I just discovered this app today, and was really liking it, until I discovered this. Given the praise I've seen for frequent updates and quick responses to observations and feature requests, it seems out of place that weeks later this has yet to be addressed (at least in the non-beta version), as it all but negates the usefulness of group messaging. Maybe addressing this is more complicated that it might appear to a user. I'm keeping my eye on the app though, as it looks very good otherwise.

Thanks for the great app... I look forward to using it.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
In group messages, the person who sent the message is displayed underneath the message. Their name or telephone number shows. You can also press the People button in the Toolbar to see all the participants in the group chat.

What hasn't been addressed? Looking forward to more info as it's likely already been addressed already ?
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Thanks for the quick reply. I took a closer look at my messages and see that the information is there. As it happens, the only group messaging thread I have is also the only thread in which I was experimenting with using an image as the background, and the background in that area was almost black - causing the text to completely disappear. Sorry... definitely my bad!

I would suggest that instead of using the group picture next to each message from other group members, that the appropriate picture for the sender be used next to each message, and/or place the sender's name inside the bubble (if enabled) to help alleviate this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
That is indeed an interesting idea. I'll give it a try tonight to see if it's possible ?
[Android Apps and Games] emma.at.buyai:
very cool
[Android Apps and Games] iMesutOzil:
how to change message centre no ?:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Please explain, what is a message centre?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Just an update about using the specific contact photo versus the group image, for individual messages. I got it working, but because individual contact images needed to be loaded asynchronously the performance of the Conversation scrolling was adversely affected. I won't be publishing the code, but I do have it in a branch that I'll hold onto a maybe revisit in the future. For now the performance of using the same group image for all incoming messages is the best choice for optimal performance.
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Thanks for checking into it, and for being as receptive to suggestions as you have been in this thread.
[Android Apps and Games] SoulSmasher:
I had a problem with a message today.

an SMS came to me from a contact "PTT", an official government sms about a document, however the sender shows sender as a contact from my list instead.

Default messaging app from Google shows it as it should.

I'm using OnePlus 2, which has dual sim, but I've only one sim if that would help.

What could be the issue ?

Thanks in advance,
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
If the sender shows a contact from your phonebook, then your phonebook has an entry for that sender ? I'm not understanding the issue, explain further if you'd like.
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
I think I can add something to this. I recently experienced this as well. The contact shown sending the message is actually incorrect. I verified this by checking with the default messaging application in my device. After a reboot of the device, it shows the correct contact information, however.
[Android Apps and Games] blestsol:
Hey OP, does the circle option work or is it just me?

And now all of a sudden MMS cant be sent from my Verizon SGS6
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
So you press the People button in the Toolbar, it shows the correct telephone number and the wrong name? This sounds like these contacts have the same telephone number overlapping.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
What is a circle option?

If Mms all of a sudden don't work, clearly isn't not an app issue as I haven't update the app in several days. Try restarting your phone, sounds like a local issue.
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
I can't reproduce the bug right now but when it happens again I'll make sure to screenshot it. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to check it out the last time and dismissed it as some glitch with the SMS db in Android as it sometimes happens with Airdroid as well.
[Android Apps and Games] blestsol:
Lemme rephrase that. I just installed your app today and the previous versions Mms worked,however this one doesn't

And the circles option?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
I'm not understanding the issues here. Mms has no defects in the current version. If you want assistance please elaborate what exactly the issue is.

Why is the circles option you are talking about?
[Android Apps and Games] SoulSmasher:
The original sender's name is "PTT" (not a number, but sent from a service without a number instead), but it's mismatched as a contact in my, user. Please see the screenshots
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
This is a device database defect. I am able to work around it likely. See 1.6.3.3 published to the Beta Channel.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.3.3 published to the Beta Channel. Here's the full changelog, likely going to push to the Play Store soon

★ Automatically collapse Settings Drawer sections allowing only one to be expanded at a time

★ Added Setting to disable automatic duplicate message filtering

★ Added Dark Gray App Tint

★ Conversation avatars can now be disabled

★ Added Sms Blaster feature to send an Sms message to multi recipients. In the Conversation List menu

★ Added setting to allow notification vibration, when in vibration mode, even if the master vibration setting is disabled
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
When selecting a color in the app using the color wheel and sliders (e.g. setting a global conversation color), is there a way (other than trial and error) to select a color that's the same as the App Theme color selected under theming? Also, it would be great (IMO) if the color wheel/slider settings started at the current values instead of centered in the wheel with the slider all the way to the right. I'm having a tough time getting the conversation color to match the Teal App Theme, and starting from scratch with each attempt makes it that much more difficult.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Already finished :P The Global Color selection dialog (in the Conversation List, Global Conversation Settings menu) and the Color dialog in each individual Conversation now default to the main App Theme color. New Beta coming tonight with a bunch of tweaks.
[Android Apps and Games] iMesutOzil:
When an SMS message is sent from a mobile phone, it will reach an SMS centre first. The SMS centre then forwards the SMS message towards the destination ....

because i cant change via *#*#4636#*#* :crying:

looking forward to ur reply.. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.3.4 published to the Beta channel

Color selection dialogs, for themes only, will default to the primary App Theme

Added a Conversation List Settings Drawer section

Improved restore state for collapsible Settings sections in configuration change events
[Android Apps and Games] SoulSmasher:
Thank you, I got the very recent update an hour ago and the problem persists.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Sorry, not much I can do to help then ?
[Android Apps and Games] SoulSmasher:
Thank you again anyways! Keep up the great work :victory:
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Smsc edit text field added to the Miscellaneous Settings Drawer section.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Try 1.6.3.9, it may help. Cheers, Noah.
[Android Apps and Games] SoulSmasher:
Yes! This fixed the issue. I can see it properly now.

Thank you SO MUCH again for the interest and the fix! :D :victory:
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
How did you get the latest version? I'm still on 1.6.3.3

I'm on the BETA channel :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] eventheodds1:
ui bug

Newest beta released, caused some ui interference.
[Android Apps and Games] SoulSmasher:
Got a link from play store after a feature request. Can't remember now.

I'm on same, don't have such issue.
[Android Apps and Games] eventheodds1:
I'm on 1.6.4.0
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Looking into it, weird ?
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Cool! Thanks. ?

I just joined the beta channel.
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
Anyone else experiencing crashes with the latest version?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Yes, working on it.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.4.1 published to the Beta channel. After some confirmations from you fine folks, and some smoke testing, I'll push it to the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] iMesutOzil:
i cant find that.... :confused: help me
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
Thanks mate. :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
You not using the most up to date Beta yet. You'll get it.
[Android Apps and Games] stallwear:
Nice but may add floating reply ;)
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Already exists. Press reply in any notification, or enable Auto Quick Reply, in the Quick Reply section of the Settings Drawer.
[Android Apps and Games] iMesutOzil:
ooooh :p thanx...:good:

got the update...
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Cool, enter the fully qualified smsc telephone address including the + (quite important).
[Android Apps and Games] h.baraary:
Love it so much :good:

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Text identifying the sender in a group conversation is now in its own bubble (good, but I was thinking it would go in the bubble with the message text), however the text color doesn't change to maintain contrast with the bubble like the message text does. For example, my bubbles are teal, and the message text is white but the sender text is black.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
I'll apply theming to the sender text bubble in the next Beta ?
[Android Apps and Games] eventheodds1:
Bug, the keyboard isn't adjusted right. Note 5 tmobile. Newest beta, also the new sender chat bubble, could it be customized to a different color than the regular chat?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Already fixed, you're not using the up to date Beta.
[Android Apps and Games] SouSoulebarbu:
Hi, I have just discovered your app and it looks almost perfect!

Nervertheless, I am desperatly lloking for an sms app working like Google Inbox and especially which include Pin and Snooze functions.

Is it possible to include these functions?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
No pin support in my app, you can snooze notifications which basically turns off notifications for a period of time to accommodate meetings and whatnot.
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
I'm sure someone spent a lot of time on the app icon, so I don't want to offend anyone, but it's really not to my taste. In my launcher (Nova Launcher) I've changed the app icon to something else. Is there any way to change the icon used for notifications, without designing something (something like a stock Android icon or something)?
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Thanks for making the default selection on the color selector match the app theme. I've noticed that for Teal, the navigation bar is close, but not the same. The hex color value for the Teal theme is 00796b, while the navigation bar in the conversation is 006d5f. Is that something that's controlled by Android (matching the notification bar)?

I have attached a picture with the two side by side.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
That's very strange. I'm fairly certain the notification status bar color is the exact same color I'm setting the nav bar color to, but photos don't lie. I'll take a peek ?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
I current haven't coded an infrastructure to change the icons. I'll need my graphics designed to make some more, and theoretically I can make the entire app icon, in turn the notification icon, customizable. It's far from a priority to be honest, but I'll put it on my list of things to consider. Cheers ?
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
Just a quick question, when searching for something, is it only the content that is searched rather than the contact names as well?

I have about 15,000 messages spanning over multiple threads and sometimes it gets hard to look for that one particular contact thread.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
The reason for this behavior is the color picker wheel doesn't possess the exact same HEX color I'm using for the App's default theme, thus it's approximating the color as close as possible to one that it has. I'm not seeing an easy way around this minor issue unfortunately :-/
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
The core Android search content provider doesn't filter recipients, only message body contents. I'm not entirely sure the best way to address the issue you want to solve for, maybe Sort Orders for the Conversation List as a future feature.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.5.2 published to the Play Store

★ Multi Sim devices will now see which Sim sent and received the Sms/Mms message

★ Minor bug fixes
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
Oh, that's sad to hear. But sorting would certainly be usable in that scenario. Thanks as always for always allowing us users to make suggestions. :D
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.5.2 was a bit of a mess. It has some database changes that many phones failed to execute the update sequence properly. The result is basically broken databases. Since the primary database update was for Mms push messages, this renders Mms broken. I fixed the situation by essentially creating entirely new databases in 1.6.5.4 that's currently live on the Play Store. The only negative implication is that this will loose all other database values like Blacklisted Conversations, Firewalled Messages, Scheduled Messages, etc... All in all its likely a one time database rebuild that shouldn't be too painful, my apologies. In any case the app is good to go again ?
[Android Apps and Games] oreo27:
Pretty good update. By the way, I didn't notice the new implementation of the the SIM indicator. This is actually pretty awesome. :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
The Sim name shows underneath all incoming and outgoing messages now on android 5.1+ phones with multiple Sims inserted. Cheers ?
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
My son has been having problem with MMS (primarily group messages, but some with attachments) in various apps and I suggested he try Material Messaging. He sent a group message to the other people (me being one of them). Mine was the first reply, followed by a reply from another person issuing the stock Messaging app on his 2013 Moto X. On the originating phone (using Material Messaging), the original message appears in one thread and the replies appear in another thread. On the other phones, all messages appear in the same thread. All three phones are on the same carrier (Cricket).

How do I go about troubleshooting this?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
Responses to Mms group messages will be in the same thread, unless the response is done with an Sms, in which case it'll be in it's own separate thread. The other phones may be aggregating Sms group message responses somehow into the group Mms thread, my app won't. For responses to be in the same thread the response must be with a standard Mms group message comparable to the way the message was sent.

Best, Noah.
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
The original message was sent to multiple people from Material Messaging (making it a MMS group message, right?). The first reply was also sent using Material Messaging, but ended up as a separate thread on the originating phone. Based on what you said, I don't think this is the expected behavior. Am I wrong? If not, where/what do I check to see why this happened?
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
There's no way to check why it happened, it shouldn't have happened. Sounds like an issue in the content://mms-sms/threadID content provider which is outside the scope of the app at a system level.
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Some time in the last two days I had two threads where the contract name and message text that appear in the conversation list are committed the same color as the app theme. The same text changes color along with changes to the app theme.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
New threads default to the app theme. When changing a threads color, the text color processes the relative darkness of the selected theme color and chooses black or white text automatically as to remain visible with contrast.
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
I think my explanation of it issue wasn't clear. It's not the color of the conversation that I'm talking about - it's the other person's name and the text snippet of the most recent message that are being colored with the app theme color in the conversation list. I've attached a sample screenshot that should help.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
When a message is marked as unread it'll show as highlighted with the app theme color like that. Open the thread to mark it read. If it's stuck unread it's an issue in the conversations database, try restarting the telephone.
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.5.8 published to the Beta Channel

★ Full Yappy integration

★ Added setting to the Conversation List section to disable conversation list avatar animations

★ Added setting to the Miscellaneous section to disable auto smiley to emoji processing

★ A few bug fixes, I'm not seeing any real issues :) Such a stable app!
[Android Apps and Games] scottjb:
Here is a request for a larger pop up window. It's rarely large enough for me to read the message. I would like to see it use more of the screen. Please consider, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] eventheodds1:
ui request

Would it be possible to change the bubble of mms where it say the person that send the mms in group chat? It's very hard to tell the different from the person send it and the text bubble
[Android Apps and Games] malquin:
About the message firewall.

Hi.

New user here, just downloaded and installed the app yesterday. Love the look and feel and the customization. Installed it on my Galaxy Note 3 with stock ROM 5.0.

The feature I was looking for was the Message firewall but it doesn't seem to work for me.

I switched cellular provider last month and their voicemail system sends 2 notification when you have a voicemail: one that lights up your voicemail indicator and, a second annoying one: A SMS where the sender shows up as the person who left you a message with the following content: "Message(s) 1 Nouveau(x) 0 Urgent(s)".

It in french. "Nouveau" means "New". Basically, it tells you the number of new and urgent messages you have in your voicemail. According to the phone company, they cannot be stopped or turned off.

So, I tried using the firewall message feature and entered the substring "Nouveau(x) 0 Urgent" to filter out the SMS but it didn't work and the SMS still got through. Any idea why? Is it because it's a substring? Is it because of the parenthesis?

Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] fluffyrush:
Awesome

Looks awesome! :D
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
I haven't used the message firewall yet, but since your filter contains spaces the first thing I would look at would be the possibility of consecutive spaces in the original message text, and make sure your filter contains the same (of any). Either that, or try a shorter filter that doesn't contain spaces.
[Android Apps and Games] malquin:
Hi.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unix sysadmin here, familiar with regex.

Yes, my pattern contains spaces. I'm looking to block phrases, not just a word. The SMS received is: "Message(s) 1 Nouveau(x) 0 Urgent(s)". I made sure to copy/paste the actual SMS with the actual number of spaces.

The pattern I want to block is "Nouveau(x) 0 Urgent(s)". With this pattern, which is a substring of the message, I block whatever number of messages I have in my voicemail as long as the number of urgent messages is 0.

I will try to shorten the pattern to "0 Urgent" to remove the parenthesis and see if it will work.

Thanks again for your suggestion.
[Android Apps and Games] malquin:
Tried the firewall message option with "0 Urgent", which is part of the received SMS and, sadly, the messages got through.

Any ideas or suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] BreckZeBoulay:
Hi Noah !

I come back with the delay of the notification for mms queue.

This morning :

- original send time : 07:47

- notification time : 08:41

Is it possible to reduce this delay ? (5 minutes could be reasonable)
[Android Apps and Games] nseidm1:
1.6.6.9 published to the Beta Channel

★ Samsung Gear notifications now support Sms and Call reply

★ Delete Old Messages fully respects locked messages now

★ Added Notification Setting related to Privacy Mode. You can now allow Android Wear watches to receive the message title and body as a 2'nd page even if Privacy Mode is enabled