As a Google Voice number user, what app should I use for texting now? Google has decided to push hangouts for enterprise, or something, and now there's a big obnoxious message that takes up half the Hangouts app whenever I open it into the "conversations" view. 

I use a google voice number for all my calls and texting in the US (calls to my google voice number are forwarded to whatever local carrier number I have at the time, texts are done over Data but appear to be from my google voice number to whoever gets a message from me). I wish to maintain this paradigm. 

In compliance with Google's indecisiveness, I tried switching over to the Android "Google Voice" app, but none of my 2+ years of conversation history on Hangouts is available there. So, I would like to, as seamlessly as possible, continue to text using my Google Voice number using whatever app Google has decided I should be using now. 

Which app should I use for texting now, and how can I port my Hangouts conversation history to that app? Bonus points if I can use that app on desktop (via browser or otherwise) to text from my Google Voice number (as I could with Hangouts).
Hangouts still works for texting to and from Google Voice only, and I don't think that is supposed to go away (at least not anytime soon)... it doesn't work as your default SIM carrier's SMS/MMS app anymore. I use it daily and just updated yesterday and it still works with the Google Voice number.

I had the Google Voice app installed, but saw no advantage to it over Hangouts so I continue to use Hangouts and the Hangouts Dialer app and have had no issues so far. That may change later, but for the foreseeable future it is working with Google Voice only. 


  Google Voice users will also be affected, but not as much as
  Hangouts-only users. The rule only applies to messages sent and
  received with your carrier phone number—all SMS messages sent with
  your Google Voice number will remain unaffected. "For SMS users using
  Google Voice on Hangouts on Android Google Voice users who also send
  carrier SMS messages will need to choose another default messaging
  app. Their Google Voice messages will be unaffected and will still be
  available in Google Hangouts," the e-mail states. "For Google Voice
  users on Hangouts on Android Google Voice users who do not use carrier
  SMS, text messaging will not be affected and no notification will be
  shown."
  - Source