Web Text app (like Cabbage)

JacksonHeightsOwn

Is there any other text type app like Cabbage floating around?

Ive used cabbage for years but since upgrading i cant figure out how to get it on my new phone.

Any help would be great.

Kristopherus

Try Swift SMS, and there's a new one, Irish Webtext, which is not as good as Cabbage or Swift. All those mentioned are Irish developed.

JacksonHeightsOwn

ok, ive downloaded the swiftsms app. But cannot for the life of me understand how to add an account.

the first screen i get is the user name and password, am i right in thinking that should be phone number, and the password for my webtext account?

Kristopherus

chrisbonnie wrote: »

ok, ive downloaded the swiftsms app. But cannot for the life of me understand how to add an account.

the first screen i get is the user name and password, am i right in thinking that should be phone number, and the password for my webtext account?

Yes. You enter the same details that you enter when you are on your provider's website.

peckerhead

Mightytext is not bad, as an alternative... (on phone so can't link, sorry).

vienne86

chrisbonnie wrote: »

Is there any other text type app like Cabbage floating around?

Ive used cabbage for years but since upgrading i cant figure out how to get it on my new phone.

Any help would be great.

Out of interest, what is the problem with Cabbage on your new phone? I'd be lost without this app.

_Whimsical_

vienne86 wrote: »

Out of interest, what is the problem with Cabbage on your new phone? I'd be lost without this app.

It doesn't work on my phone anymore either. I've switched to swiftsms.

vienne86

OK, so I've just seen that Cabbage is no longer in the Playstore....that's a pity as I use it a lot. I see there is a Vodafone SMS (Unofficial) app - has anyone tried it?

_Whimsical_

vienne86 wrote: »

OK, so I've just seen that Cabbage is no longer in the Playstore....that's a pity as I use it a lot. I see there is a Vodafone SMS (Unofficial) app - has anyone tried it?

I've changed to swiftsms and so far so great. It does all the major phone networks just like cabbage does.

Lovely Bloke

does Swift save the sent texts?

anncoates

Used to find textdroid fine but haven't used it for ages.

To be honest, I just find things like What'sapp far handier these days.

_Whimsical_

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

does Swift save the sent texts?

Yes, it saves them to your main android message app rather than in the swift app itself though.

vienne86

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Yes, it saves them to your main android message app rather than in the swift app itself though.

That sounds good - that's where you want them. Can it deal with the Captcha automatically?

Fluffy88

vienne86 wrote: »

That sounds good - that's where you want them. Can it deal with the Captcha automatically?

No SwiftSMS makes no attempt to automatically solve captchas.

vienne86

Fluffy88 wrote: »

No SwiftSMS makes no attempt to automatically solve captchas.

Well the Captcha app for Cabbage was not reliable so I uninstalled it anyway. I've installed SwiftSMS and think I might prefer it to cabbage! I like the way it just dumps the sent messages in with the other outgoing messages....with cabbage you have two apps storing incoming and outgoing messages, so I think I will be abandoning it in favour of SwiftSMS. Thanks for the advice Fluffy.

Fluffy88

vienne86 wrote: »

Well the Captcha app for Cabbage was not reliable so I uninstalled it anyway. I've installed SwiftSMS and think I might prefer it to cabbage! I like the way it just dumps the sent messages in with the other outgoing messages....with cabbage you have two apps storing incoming and outgoing messages, so I think I will be abandoning it in favour of SwiftSMS. Thanks for the advice Fluffy.

It was less advice, more a factual statement, but I'm glad it helped you out.
I too find SwiftSMS better :P

Lovely Bloke

Where does swift store the outgoing.

I sent a test to a number I've never texted before, and I can't find it.

vienne86

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Where does swift store the outgoing.

I sent a test to a number I've never texted before, and I can't find it.

Look in your phone Log - surely they will show up there - and they should show up in your normal messaging.

Fluffy88

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Where does swift store the outgoing.

I sent a test to a number I've never texted before, and I can't find it.

As vienne86 pointed out, it will show up in your normal messaging app, regardless if you've text the number before or not.

Except for Android 5 and above

vienne86

Fluffy88 wrote: »

As vienne86 pointed out, it will show up in your normal messaging app, regardless if you've text the number before or not.

Except for Android 5.1 and above

And what happens for Android 5.1?????

Fluffy88

vienne86 wrote: »

And what happens for Android 5.1?????

Absolutely nothing
Android 5 shutdown a loophole that allowed apps write to the sent SMS database.

jgbyr

Fluffy88 wrote: »

Absolutely nothing
Android 5.1 shutdown a loophole that allowed apps write to the sent SMS database.

I had my phone rooted & was using app ops root App to write sent msgs on Android 5.01.
Since I flashed a factory image to get 5.1 I haven't rerooted my phone but sent messages are still written to my sms app. Strange

Fluffy88

Most likely because the permission you switched on is still enabled, even after the upgrade.

jgbyr

Fluffy88 wrote: »

As vienne86 pointed out, it will show up in your normal messaging app, regardless if you've text the number before or not.

Except for Android 5.1 and above

I'm changing phones (for 4g) & it will have Android 5.0.2. Can Swiftsms write the sent messages in the messaging app? The phone isn't rooted. Thanks

Fluffy88

jgbyr wrote: »

I'm changing phones (for 4g) & it will have Android 5.0.2. Can Swiftsms write the sent messages in the messaging app? The phone isn't rooted. Thanks

I've updated my comments above, the loophole was closing in 5.0 so, no.
On Lollipop the only way to save sent SMS messages is through rooting

vienne86

Fluffy88 wrote: »

I've updated my comments above, the loophole was closing in 5.0 so, no.
On Lollipop the only way to save sent SMS messages is through rooting

Well that's a pain. Not in any hurry to buy a new phone with Lollipop anyway TG.

Honestly!

The "Irish Webtext" App is up since June and it's fine. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hoverapps.irishwebtext&hl=en

You can use the Vodafone Captcha App with it ,not sure about other providers.

Anyone know if there are webtext apps for Apple? Thinking of getting an iPhone

StereoSound

In using the Irish webtext app for the past week. Its an OK app until I discover something better.

vienne86

How does this Irish webtext app compare with SwiftSMS or Cabbage? How does the captcha perform? Does this app save sent messages?

Worztron

Hi. Any open-source alternative to Cabbage?

Fluffy88

We moved SwiftSMS over to Github recently
https://github.com/SwiftSMS/Android

Didn't do much else to make it open source, as in, no documentation was created etc. But the code is all up there and I would love to have a few contributors moving the app forward.

Worztron

Fluffy88 wrote: »

We moved SwiftSMS over to Github recently
https://github.com/SwiftSMS/Android

Didn't do much else to make it open source, as in, no documentation was created etc. But the code is all up there and I would love to have a few contributors moving the app forward.

Hi Fluffy88.

What's the license? Something like GNU GPL?

Fluffy88

None atm, like I said, we just made it "open source" without any other real changes.
I might look into putting in place a licence at some point, but basically my intention in making it open source is to create a single app which we can all contribute to, to ensure it's continued development and hopefully improvement.

What are you looking for in particular?

Worztron

Fluffy88 wrote: »

None atm, like I said, we just made it "open source" without any other real changes.
I might look into putting in place a licence at some point, but basically my intention in making it open source is to create a single app which we can all contribute to, to ensure it's continued development and hopefully improvement.

What are you looking for in particular?

I was just curious as to the license you guys would opt for.

The most common that come to mind are:

• Apache License
• BSD
  
• GNU General Public License (GPL)
• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
• MIT License

Licenses & Standards: http://opensource.org/licenses

But yes the most important thing is that your great app is now open-source.

tv3tg4

What webtext application is best?