Google puts Assistant into its Android texting app, and it's pretty cool

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as informed in Now it's in your Android Messages texting app, too. The idea is that you "pay" for the coffee and When you wait, you get the Assistant demo. Now playing: Watch this: Google Assistant makes your Android texts smarterAssistant for Android Messages is the laanalisis example of Google's embrace of AI to understand context and anticipate what you want. Right now, Assistant for Android Messages only works by movies and restaurants, but you can easily see how this could expand to other facets of daily life. The new Assistant feature borrows elements from Google Allo, the now-defunct AI messaging app Google pushed hard for phones before pulling the plug.


Google seemingly delays Android Q APIs that would open RCS messaging to third-party apps

Last month, we covered the powerful possibility of Android Q providing new APIs for RCS messaging to third-party app developers, based on some evidence in Android code. RCS, the heart of Google's "Chat" initiative, is currently only available out of a choose few apps, like Android Messages, and for now, third-party apps cannot easily use RCS. The commit, entitled "Hide RcsMessageStore APIs," does exactly what it claims to do, and "hides" the new RCS APIs from being available for developers to use. More explicitly, the message attached to the newest code change reads:This feature is punted from Android Q. While Google may have once intended for third-party apps on Android Q to be able to use RCS, now this idea has been delayed to a later version, possibly Android R. No public reason has been given for the RCS API's "punt" from Android Q.

Google seemingly delays Android Q APIs that would open RCS messaging to third-party apps




Popular Titanium Backup Android app gets booted from Google Play Store

according to Popular Titanium Backup Android app gets booted from Google Play StoreGoogle recently implemented stricter rules around reading SMS and call logs to prevent malicious apps from gaining access to those personal data. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for Titanium Backup but the story might not be extremely straightforward as it seems. Titanium Backup, however, has been removed from the Google Play Store that lifts questions on what happened. — Titanium Backup (@TitaniumBackup) February 25, 2019It may seem like unfair curing on the surface, especially given Titanium Backup's popularity. that alextremely lifts the question of whether Titanium Backup even applied for an exception in the first place.





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