Hangouts = super app?

[ElronTheElder]

Hangouts has taken over default messenger duties on it's own.

Is this only in 7.1.1 beta or generally?

 

[ptkelly]

I'm running Android 7.1.1 beta and Hangouts has not taken over messaging. I'm still using plain on Messenger.

 

[ElronTheElder]

On it's own: messaging "asked" to be default now....weird.

On a side note:
If Allo is purported to be the bees knees...why can't we set as default text/mms app?
If it's proprietary....not much good.

 

[ElronTheElder]

Hangouts did it again.
I'm sending on messenger, getting text back in Hangouts...

EDIT: Just cleared storage....we shall see.
Lost sound also....

Think it's time for a FDR, better known as PITA ;-)

 

[LeoRex]

Yeah... I am not sure what Google is up to with its messaging platforms. Near as I can tell, we're smack dab in the middle of a big digital soup... First, they've already announced that Hangouts is going to move to a more Slack-like model. It'll be a platform for group communications and collaborations and not as much a messaging app.

Allo is the personal messaging client of the future... but its not fully baked at the moment. It still needs to have a few things.. notably the ability to handle SMS/MMS natively, allow for multi-presence, and store messages in the google cloud so conversations are maintained.

Google Messenger, well, that'll always stick around I think, as its the Google build of the AOSP SMS app. Allo is not an Android core app, so there will always be a non-Allo SMS client out there.

 

[ElronTheElder]

Gave up, set Hangouts as default.
Here's hoping it's stable.
Darn, don't really care which one. Just be stable/functional.