Google Messages prepares RCS integration with Samsung Continuity

Enrique, 10 July 2021

Google is preparing to integrate Google Messages RCS to work with Samsung’s Continuity feature. This feature lets Samsung Tablet and Smartwatch users receive calls and messages from a Samsung smartphone. The new integration would let the Continuity feature access incoming RCS messages and let users respond while using Google Messages.

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XDA-Developers discovered this through the strings of text contained in the Android Messages app code. The text refers to a new permission within the app.

Permission to send SMS/MMS/RCS messages using Android Messages API

With this permission the app will be allowed to send SMS/MMS/RCS using Android Messages. It will have an access to send messages with any extra approvals.

It was initially reported that Google Messages was opening an API for third-party apps to handle RCS messaging, but it was later verified that the particular build of Google Messages containing this text is present solely in the Google Messages build for Samsung smartphones.

The permission is being built specifically because Samsung (outside the US) uses Google Messages as the default out-of-the-box messaging app. Before that, Samsung used its own One UI app for SMS and it indeed supported RCS messaging as well.

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Reader comments

  • Anonymous
  • 23 Aug 2021
  • XLE

If Google made RCS end to end encrypted at the same time made it appealing to the people by integrating a way for RCS to communicate with iMessages then it would put WhatsApp out of business and personally I wouldn't mind using RCS I believe thi...

  • Anonymous
  • 11 Jul 2021
  • nD$

nice try NSA, we use end to end encrypted messages like signal not your backdoored crap

  • vid
  • 10 Jul 2021
  • gFq

Ti does not if you don't have galaxy watch. Me as a galaxy watch and a70 user, I use google messages and rcs a lot, so i will be able to communicate with my family directly on my watch, because rn, you can do this only with samsung default messa...

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