Hangouts: More Material Designs, stickers, location sharing and more! [APK]

The messaging client, as well as Google’s SMS/MMS app Hangouts, is evolving from update to update, and the team behind the app is still giving us an update with some new features that aren’t revolutionary but are practical and fun.

This is according to a post by Google employee Rhett Robinson on Google+ listing all the new features for this update to us, and shortly after that one of his colleagues, Mayur Kamat, explains to us other important new features that will improve our use of Hangouts and will also introduce more Material Design .

First of all, an addition, stickers, which is more than knownFound in all (or almost all) instant messengers like Line or WhatsApp, it has finally been embraced by Hangouts, although it may not be very useful to some of you and please others. Always on the aesthetic side you will have the possibility to change the filters during the video callfrom sepia to black and white.

As with Facebook Messenger, a very useful new feature is also emerging. “last seen” or in other words “last seen”, this allows you to determine whether your interlocutor is there, and if not, for how long. Easier to detect who is online and Easier to tell where you are connected with a button to share your geolocation.

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You already know that Hangouts allows sending instant messages as well as SMS. you will now be able to manually switch between the two sending methods from your direct speech in your spare time.

With this update comes other new features and you can explore them by installing the latest version of Hangouts, Google’s messaging client. You can download it directly from the Play Store below or If you don’t want to wait for the update to be released, you can download the APK..

• Download APK Hangouts (v2.5.81587410)