How do I change the top color on the Note 4 messages?

[AC Question]

How do I change top color on the Note 4 messages?

 

[Kjthomas0724]

Re: ButtUglyColor

If you are referring to the orange in the stock messaging, you can't.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[Gearheadaddy]

Re: ButtUglyColor

You can't.

Posted via the Verizon Note 4

 

[Ntchwaidumela]

Re: ButtUglyColor

Download GO SMS Pro. It's free and you can customize up the wazoo.

 

[Androidprodigy]

"Textra" is the messenger app to get.

 

[roaduardo1]

"Textra" is the messenger app to get.

I use Chomp. What's the big difference between it and Textra? I used GoSMS for a while in the past but found it to be too bloaty.

 

[roaduardo1]

Re: ButtUglyColor

If you are referring to the orange in the stock messaging, you can't.

Posted via the Android Central App

Such a weird restriction. Why do they have the design locked up?

 

[jordyd]

Re: ButtUglyColor

Such a weird restriction. Why do they have the design locked up?

They're going exactly against one of the main attractions and reasons of Android. I'd have thought 'material design' would have been easily customisable with its colours because of its simple design.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4

 

[ehstaley]

Re: ButtUglyColor

Textra seems to be the lightest running messenger app I have used. I was a longtime user of Hancent, then GoSMS, Chomp, etc. They all were nice several years ago, but updates through the years made them less desirable for me (heavy resources, lack of customization, ads). Anyhow, Textra recently requested a whole $1 to keep it ad free as a one time charge. Seeing as I have been using it for over a year, I didn't mind spending a dollar on a smooth running, low resource app. Good luck!

 

[natehoy]

Re: ButtUglyColor

Textra seems to be the lightest running messenger app I have used. I was a longtime user of Hancent, then GoSMS, Chomp, etc. They all were nice several years ago, but updates through the years made them less desirable for me (heavy resources, lack of customization, ads). Anyhow, Textra recently requested a whole $1 to keep it ad free as a one time charge. Seeing as I have been using it for over a year, I didn't mind spending a dollar on a smooth running, low resource app. Good luck!

One thing that drives me nuts about messaging is group messaging. Most of the other people on my work group have iPhones, and they'll have a conversation that I don't even know all the recipients to reply to even if I cared to "reply to all". Does Textra do group messaging well over SMS/MMS?

 

[ehstaley]

Re: ButtUglyColor

One thing that drives me nuts about messaging is group messaging. Most of the other people on my work group have iPhones, and they'll have a conversation that I don't even know all the recipients to reply to even if I cared to "reply to all". Does Textra do group messaging well over SMS/MMS?

Initially, it did not work well. One day I was looking through some of the settings and saw where all group messages could be sent through MMS to fix some users problems. I am assuming this fixed the problem, because no one has mentioned my group message fails since checking the box. The setting is on the main settings screen when entered from the conversation list screen. HTH!

 

[roaduardo1]

Re: ButtUglyColor

They're going exactly against one of the main attractions and reasons of Android. I'd have thought 'material design' would have been easily customisable with its colours because of its simple design.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4

I don't get it. If there a fear of things not remaining reliable or something? Is it a brand issue? Like if they allow customizations people wouldn't notice it was a Samsung? Whatsapp does similar things with it's restrictions on customization. I got so bored that I installed the custom Plus app and it's been so much fun messaging on that.

 

[anon(5719825)]

Re: ButtUglyColor

They're going exactly against one of the main attractions and reasons of Android. I'd have thought 'material design' would have been easily customisable with its colours because of its simple design.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4

You still have the choice to use ANY messaging app as the default. Find one and use it. Each messaging app has it's own colors so pick one you like and use it.

 

[jordyd]

Re: ButtUglyColor

You still have the choice to use ANY messaging app as the default. Find one and use it. Each messaging app has it's own colors so pick one you like and use it.

Yeah, I'm not so bothered myself, I don't mind the stock app, but can understand people wanting to be able to change things.

All I'm saying is that the way Material Design has been created, it should have been an easy option to select a color scheme, as its only really the headers that change color.

Not forgetting that Material design in chrome can change color depending kB the website. I.e. BBC News - red header. So I doubt its uniformity issues otherwise they wouldn't let certain chrome sites their own colour.