Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google could also be engaged on a brand new characteristic for the Google Messages app.
- Code inside a beta model of the Google Messages app suggests Google could enable customers to edit their messages.
From UI adjustments to the inclusion of HDR, Google has been making fairly a number of changes to its Google Messages app just lately. And it appears to be like like there might nonetheless be extra to return, as strings of code counsel the app could get a despatched textual content enhancing characteristic.
An APK teardown helps predict options which will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s potential that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
Based on TheSpAndroid, the beta model of the Google Messages app that was launched within the final week of November incorporates hints of a message enhancing characteristic. The APK teardown revealed 4 flags that included:
- bugle.enable_edit_ui
- bugle.load_edit_history
- bugle.process_outgoing_edits
- bugle.process_incoming_edits
Taking place the record, it seems the primary flag suggests there can be a UI for the enhancing characteristic. The subsequent flag seems to confer with being able to deliver up a historical past of edits. The third and fourth flags appear to cope with processing edits for the consumer and the recipient.
Whereas there’s no assure that Google will deliver the characteristic to Messages, it will be a welcomed addition to the app. Particularly contemplating that Messages can be enjoying meet up with different messaging apps that already supply the characteristic, like WhatsApp.
