Can iMessages be downloaded or received on Android devices?

Hello Gandolf!

No, I’m afraid he can’t download iMessage to his Android. iMessage is strictly for texting between Apple devices.

The ability to send text messages to an email address is usually something your carrier will have/not have, and isn’t something that’s built into an OS, but I may be wrong.

None of the native to Apple apps can be downloaded on an Android device. Speaking of apps, there are many apps available with which you could message him. WhatsApp comes to mind, so does Discord, and many others.

Have a great day!

It sounds as if you've been doing this with the iPad. That may be the easiest way to continue.

However, you can text your friend on their Android phone using their phone number. Are you having some sort of trouble doing that?

If you want to collaborate on notes or documents and it's important for the Android phone to be involved, you may want to consider using a more platform-agnostic note-taking app. While your friend can certainly copy and paste information from Notes into some other app on their Android phone, that seems cumbersome. I'm sure there are lots of options out there. Google Keep springs to mind.

Gandolf243 wrote:

Can a forwarding automation or shortcut automation be created so that when I text him I it forwards it to him?

I don't understand the question. Why don't you just...text him? Why do you need to forward anything? You can text Android phones from iPhones. What am I missing in this equation?

Gandolf243 wrote:

I wrote:

A friend of mine has an Android phone, and I want to communicate with him, but I use a email address for texting, and the android software doesn’t support sending text messages to an email address.

That is the problem.

My question was (is) why don't you use his phone number to text him?

Gandolf243 wrote:

Sorry about how long it took to respond, took a few days off the internet.

Yes, I don’t have a SIM card, but I did help him set up an animation to send a text to his phone when I text him via the iPad.

Do you mean "automation?"

he is not seeking any other options then regular texting. And I don’t have a google account so that can be ruled out.

That was just one suggestion. SimpleNote is another one. Doing a search for "collaborative notes apps" would probably find you dozens, if not hundreds.

What kind of data are you trying to transfer?

No SIM maybe, so he has to seek other options than regular texting? Is this the case Gandolf?

H1290 wrote:

No SIM maybe, so he has to seek other options than regular texting? Is this the case Gandolf?

That's why I asked them...