Question android.bips??

[An2net]

Hi, was scrolling through my google web & app activity and came across this: ‘used android.bips.com’. It isn’t an app. Any ideas??

 

[VidJunky]

A quick search returned this result;

Android.bips.com is the website for the BiP app, a free instant messaging app that allows users to send text messages, make voice calls, and video chat: [1, 2, 3]

• Features: BiP offers a variety of features, including: [1]
  
  • Disappearing messages: Send messages that are deleted after a specified time [1]
  • Simultaneous translation: Translate messages into over 100 languages [1]
  • Group calls: Make HD quality group calls with up to 15 people [1]
  • Transfer chats: Move chats from other messaging apps to BiP [1]
  • Default SMS app: Set BiP as your default SMS app [1]
• Availability: BiP is available on the App Store, Google Play, and Huawei AppGallery [3]
• Security: BiP does not share or store messages with third parties, and users can permanently delete their accounts [1]

Seems to be related to an app...

 

[An2net]

Thanks but this isn’t an app I have installed on my phone….im aware of the app called BiP but it isn’t that…..

 

[Golfdriver97]

It could be part of a package of the ROM, or even Android itself. I found this on Google's version of GIT: https://android.googlesource.com/pl...ervice/+/refs/heads/main/src/com/android/bips

There are a lot of coding files related to printing.

 

[VidJunky]

Golfdriver97 has hit this one down the fairway. If you look through these lists you may find apps that reference AT&T when you have TMobile, Motorola when you have a Samsung and many others that may not match up with your device, carrier. or apps that recognize. Someone found something that works and rather than putting in a lot of effort to make their own or reinventing the wheel they borrow from something that already exists and works.

It's been a while since I've seen a question about the activity log but really this information is not for us casual users. You're not apt to find something truly weird going on here, or catch some app up to no good, it usually just makes people paranoid for no reason and wonder why everything is com. (dot) instead of (dot) .com.

 

[B. Diddy]

Yep, here's another reference to BuiltInPrintService (BIPS): https://android.googlesource.com/pl...src/com/android/bips/BuiltInPrintService.java

 

[Golfdriver97]

Golfdriver97 has hit this one down the fairway.

Took me a second to get this. When I first read it I was thinking baseball. Then I read fairway and then connected it to my username...