Hangouts: 2.3 update brings Material Design and voice calls

Hangouts is now available in version 2.3. The update adapts the app to the Material Design charter and sees phone calls appear.

You can already go to Play Store and explore this new version of Hangouts. We learned this month that Google is combining Hangouts with Google Voice, and this update is a step in that direction.

Thus, phone calls are finally coming to the Google app. The function is divided into two parts. Firstly, It’s now possible to search your Gmail contacts for freethis was already possible, but only in video call.

Then the app goes even further, as it lets you call people who don’t have Hangouts directly from their landline or cell phone. To do this, you must first install the Hangout Dialer utility. However, calls can be made directly from Hangouts. The calls will be made free or at very low rates depending on the location, you will find the rates link at the bottom of the page.

In addition, the development of the application is graphical, With the advent of the Material Design charter. It should be understood from the new interface for the moment that the application, like all updates made up to that time, almost only occupies the view.

Let’s remember that Material Design goes even further, because it basically rethinks navigation, so the principle received an award for its contribution to the UI. The fact remains that Hangouts v2.3 is very pleasing to the eye and we can see changes in navigation that are still in line with future Material Design in a logically flat style here and there.

Little by little, as with the Google Play Store update, dev prepares us for the arrival of Android L, which shouldn’t take long to arrive. Moreover, after many delays on the subject, it seems that the name of the operating system will finally be Lollipop. But with all these comings and goings, we are no longer immune to another change.

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