Certain number not receiving text messages

I've been having a problem with my phone where a single number will not receive any text messages sent from my number. I receive any texts from him without any issue, and we can both call each other as well. I am on Verizon, an iphone 5 with the latest software (7.1). He is on AT&T with an android device. He does not and has never had an iphone on his account, so I know it's nothing to do with iMessage (I have turned iMessage on and off as well to no avail). We have both deleted groupme or other messaging systems that other help threads I've seen online blame as the problem. I have not had this problem with anyone else in my contacts, and it seems to have started out of nowhere.

When you send a message from your phone, is the bubble around the message blue or green? If it is blue, your phone is attempting to send it via iMessage to a phone which cannot access iMessage.
If the bubble is blue, do you get a warning message that the message cannot be sent(or some other message to that effect)? If so, there should be a little question mark/asterisk next to the warning. Touch that and you should get an option to send as an SMS. Do that, but this also points out the fact that you do not have SMS enabled on your phone.
Go into the settings, under iMessage (or Messages, I can't remember which it is) and make sure that send as SMS if iMessage is unavailable is checked.

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Verizon wiping out old phones would have nothing to do with it. The phone is no longer associated with the number, so wiping the phone would have no effect. It is your Apple ID which is the problem. You have iMessage turned on for your Apple ID. iPhones which have your Apple ID associated with your contact will send texts to your Apple ID, not your phone #. If you have another Apple device which can use iMessage, you could turn off iMessage in that device, but as long as your friends have your Apple ID associated with your contact and you have turned on iMessage in an Apple device and never turned it off before switching from an Apple device to another platform, you will have this problem.
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Hello,
I am using the messaging app that was preloaded with the phone, the green face icon. I do not have an "Android Keyboard" app, but I have cleared the cache on the "Messaging" app, several times. I have also gone to the Verizon store where an associate did a soft reboot, telling me that would work. A very short time later, the error message started appearing again--so this did not work either.
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2) Do you have any 3rd party messaging apps installed?
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4) When they're sending messages, are they directly to you, or do you have this problem when the iPhone user sends to a group of people?
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