I’ve heard the process is a pain in the ass and not very reliable. I am trying to prepare for when Apple adds RCS support because unfortunately in the US almost everyone has an iPhone and refuses to use a messaging app outside of iMessage.

I have installed sandboxed play services and the Carrier Services app from the google play store with a dummy google account and have put in my phone number in Google Messages for it to verify but it has not been able to do anything and is just stuck on “Trying to Verify” for hours now.

I’ve already tried clearing cache and everything as well.

Any help would be appreciated.

  • MagneticFusion@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for your useless comment. Actually not even thank you cause your statistics are wrong. US marketshare is 57% iOS and 43% Android, in the younger generations it’s something more like 85% iOS and 15% Android which is the demographic I have to deal with.