Google Messages is getting an replace — this time with some pizzazz. Google is testing the addition of colour and background customization for the RCS messaging app on Android telephones.
Nonetheless in beta, the choices will help you set customized backgrounds and chat bubble colours. The default theme follows Android’s Materials You colour schemes based mostly in your gadget’s wallpaper, however it seems you can change it when you favor, as reported earlier by Android Police.
The colour choices are rolling out to customers who’ve opted in to beta take a look at the app, a Google spokesperson stated in an announcement final week. They will be out there extra broadly within the “close to future.”
Google’s RCS, an iMessage-like commonplace, lets you ship higher-quality pictures by way of messaging and in addition use encryption. The hassle has turn out to be so standard that even Apple has stated it plans to convey RCS help to the iPhone this 12 months. It is unclear whether or not that may calm the inexperienced bubble debate, however this newest replace means you may now be capable of flip your iPhone-using buddies’ chat bubbles inexperienced (or blue) in your finish.
The transfer is not precisely “one small step for man, one big leap for mankind,” however Android customers will in all probability recognize it anyway. And it has the additional benefit of serving to Google Messages stand out in a world the place Apple’s iMessage appears to at all times get extra consideration, whether or not it is for brand new superior safety or anti-harassment options.
For its half, Google Messages is the tech titan’s newest effort to convey communication beneath one app. Google has an extended historical past of matches and begins with messaging apps, together with Google Discuss, Google Hangouts, Allo and Duo.
Over the previous couple years, although, Google has put rising consideration on its Google Messages app. Samsung made the app its default native messaging program in 2021, as have some carriers, together with AT&T.