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Text message
Android SMS
Delivery update thread
Google Messages with the Material-blue outgoing bubble, clean status bar and a Read marker — the everyday utility scene.
Open the Android SMS generator →Android SMS examples
Android SMS chat screenshot examples
Android messages have their own grammar: Google's Material blue, a clean status bar, and a Read marker under RCS. All three examples were rendered by our Android SMS generator, which draws the Android status bar the way a real screenshot does — clock on the left, icons on the right, no camera cutout — unlike the iPhone pages.
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Mobile
Text message
Android SMS
Appointment confirmation
A business-style SMS thread with the Read marker and Material bubbles — appointment reminders are one of the most recreated text scenes.
Open the Android SMS generator →R
Mobile
Text message
Android SMS
Volunteer rota
Google Messages with the Material blue bubble, a clean Android status bar and a Read marker — a community group locking in the weekend rota.
Open the Android SMS generator →Why these compositions work
Material capsules are wider than iMessage
Google Messages uses Material Design, and the giveaway is the bubble radius. Where iOS Messages rounds to 18px, Google's capsules go out to about 20px, and the corners square off differently: when one person sends several messages in a row, the last bubble in that run tightens to a 6px corner on the sender's side. Outgoing bubbles are Google blue (#1a73e8) with white text, the same blue in light and dark mode; incoming bubbles are a light grey (#f1f3f4) that darkens to #303134 when the app is in night mode. Because both the radius and the corner behaviour are larger and looser than Apple's, a screenshot borrowed from an iPhone template looks subtly wrong to any Android user.
Read is text, not a tick
Android messaging does not borrow WhatsApp's tick language. There is no single grey tick, no double tick, and no blue read receipt anywhere on the screen. Under RCS, Google Messages confirms a read with a small grey word — Read — sitting beneath the last outgoing message, and that is the only receipt the interface shows. For a mockup this simplifies things: you either display that one label or you leave it off. It also adds a scene cue the ticks cannot express, since clearing it implies your message has not been seen. Everything about directionality lives in the bubble colour instead: Google blue means you sent it, grey means they did, and there is nothing else to decode.
The status bar is Android-shaped
Android and iPhone screenshots differ before you reach the first message, and the status bar is where it starts. On Android the clock sits on the left with the signal and battery cluster on the right; on iPhone the arrangement is split differently and the top of the screen carries a camera cutout. Because a real screenshot never captures the hardware hole, our Android page draws a clean rectangle with no notch or island, and the clock on the left. For the same reason the phone frame starts switched off here: dropping an Android interface into an iPhone-style shell with a Dynamic Island would look wrong at a glance. If you are compositing the mockup into a device image, turn the frame on deliberately and use an Android-shaped one.
Design details we reproduce
- Material Design bubbles with the large 20px radius and Google blue
- Android status bar: clock on the left, signal and battery on the right
- Read marker under the last outgoing message, editable like RCS
- Carrier label and subtitle line for a believable contacts entry
Where these scenes shine
Courier updates, appointment confirmations and volunteer rotas are the most-recreated SMS scenes — short, practical and instantly believable on a Material canvas.
Make your Android SMS mockup →Android SMS mockup questions
Which app does this look like?
Google Messages, the default SMS/RCS app on most Android phones — Material bubbles, blue outgoing messages and a pill-shaped input field.
Why is the status bar different from the iPhone pages?
Because the phone is different: Android puts the clock on the left with the signal and battery cluster on the right, and our Android pages draw that layout — with no camera cutout, since a real screenshot never captures the hardware hole.
Can I change the Read label?
Yes — type Read with a time, just Delivered, or clear it for an unanswered message. It sits under the last outgoing bubble like RCS does.