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@Anibyl @mattl it's been messages for a while now for me? What version of Android are you on?

@fancysandwiches @mattl I guess by messages you mean Google Messages. It's not a part of the Android open-source project, but *some* phone manufacturers preinstall Google apps which makes them kinda “stock”. “Messaging” is a part of the AOSP, and it looks like this:
I'm on Android 15, Graphene OS.

@Anibyl @fancysandwiches GrapheneOS isn’t what I mean by stock.. what do the vast majority of Android users have?

@mattl @fancysandwiches I mean, we don't call Facebook a stock app, despite the fact that the vast majority of Android users have it (and sometimes it even comes preinstalled). Google Messages could be stock for your specific phone, but not across all Android phones! Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei likely don't come with it.

@Anibyl @fancysandwiches yeah this just feels like the kind of nitpicking I was trying to avoid.

@mattl @fancysandwiches It's just people consider different things default. And as someone who has been using Android since 2010 and has never had Google Messages on their phones, I don't consider it default

@Anibyl @fancysandwiches no there’s definitely something that’s stock and my question was about that not the myriad other versions of Android.

@fancysandwiches @mattl Many phone manufacturers have their own messaging apps. Like Xiaomi that I used to have. Google Messages is not a stock app in the whole Android world. But it's for sure a common one.

@Anibyl @fancysandwiches How many of the Android phones that the average person in the West can buy in a store ship with Google’s messaging app? Approximately? 90%?