Android 4.4 will change the default SMS - Computer World (press release)

If every day you wear in your pocket Android smartphone, you probably well know the Messaging application system, which in the Polish language version called the SMS / MMS. It is now a native trap supports all text communication. So, if you are using another application, the functionality of the two used to be duplicated.

Google informed developers that it intends to Android 4.4 KitKat to change the approach to the API when it comes to applications that support SMS. As a result, the authors of other alternative programs of this type will not have to resort to some solutions that Google looks very reluctantly. Disappear so you need to reach for. hidden APIs .

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to be made public its own API, which greatly simplify everyone’s life. User at any time will be able to from the Settings menu, select the default application to handle SMS messages, developers will have more freedom and opportunities, and features androidowych programs fail to overlap.

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If you choose to install alternative application from Google Play and choose it as the default trap system SMS / MMS is not active and will not receive messages. It is possible that it will be even possible to uninstall it. Perhaps it will improve the mood of all who suspect Google of “reading” the text-based communication. The advantage of the new solution is a picture of another padlock with Android, and thus are more open and already quite open system.

It is worth noting that for some time after the network is circulated so far unconfirmed rumors about plans to add the Google Hangouts messaging support for SMS, so it would be just as functional such as Facebook Messenger.

… or getting ready for a quiet charades applications to use text messaging? On the web there are rumors of replacing the system traps the new version of messenger hangouts

It is possible, therefore, that the new version of the trap native SMS / MMS disappear completely, and the task will take a new more universal application. In this case, open the gates to developers does not look like a gesture of good will. It’s more like a clever legal trick from Google, for when allegations of promoting the power of applications hangouts.

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