[gibbonsrcool]

My father continuously had problems sending pictures over SMS, which would be super helpful so that I could help him accomplish tasks remotely. The built-in app on Android was too confusing for him thanks to cognitive decline. I made a super simple app that's only purpose was to send pics via SMS. One screen, contacts selected by drop down, camera view in the center, one button. Google wouldn't let me publish it because SMS apps on the Play Store have to implement ALL SMS functionality. I sent him the APK by email so at least there's that. It worked well for him at least. Fuck Google though.

[youainti]

Would you be open to putting it on F-Droid or something like that?

[gibbonsrcool]

After doing some Android freelance recently and having a clients Play Store account get shut down because they forgot one of the requirements imposed by Google I’m done with Android, and hopefully can free myself from Google services completely.

[ale42]

SMS or MMS? Or is that uploading the picture somewhere and SMSing a link to it?

[gibbonsrcool]

Yes it’s MMS. Something I learned during the process of making it was that sending a pic wasn’t technically SMS… guess I forgot. Haven’t worked with SMS/MMS since.

[princevegeta89]

Fuck Google for asking to always sign in to Google accounts for everything and tying up shit together.

[gibbonsrcool]

And why are they bugging us for a sign in when in mobile private mode on safari! Gtfoh!

[worthless-trash]

Can you link to source. I'm in the very same situation.

[gibbonsrcool]

Sure, I made the repo public: https://github.com/gvbl/TextAPic

I don't believe the app works any more, something has changed and I haven't investigated. I hope it's still useful for you!