Google has been constantly improving the Messages app since its inception. Last November, the Mountain View company announced the arrival of end-to-end SMS encryption, as did Telegram. Messages already offers many features that do just that. a tough competitor to other SMS apps and doesn’t seem to want to stop there. Soon it will also be possible to schedule the sending of text messages.
However, innovations are not always to everyone’s taste, and the next in the run could be one of them. Really, many Android smartphones will not be able to use the app from April 2021. It was our colleagues at XDA Developers who uncovered the information they got from a line of code found in version 7.2.203 of the APK. This displays the following message: “From March 31, Messages will stop working on devices without a certificate like this one”.
Smartphones without a certificate will no longer be able to use Google Messages
Google has not yet made a statement for this decision, but it is likely due to its strategy to replace SMS with the new RCS protocol. The latter is increasingly at the very popular iMessages level. For this reason, uncertified smartphones that cannot download applications from the Play Store have had such a possibility until now. Install APK manually Messages.
Huawei devices in particular have no choice but to use this method to access the app as they have lost their Android license. Therefore, soon it will no longer work and the corresponding smartphones another courier. In May 2020, Google Messages recorded more than:one billion downloads.
Source : XDA Developers
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