Latest update to Google Allo prepares it for web client
Allo users have been yearning for a web client that could finally expand the app’s capabilities to a roomier laptop or desktop keyboard. Earlier in July, a Google exec confirmed on Twitter that the web client is coming in “a few more weeks”.
It’s been more than three weeks since then and 9to5Google has performed a teardown of the latest version (15) of Allo where a few preparations for the web client were found. These findings are based on strings of code found in the decompiled APK.
In addition to a new icon, the teardown reveals the “Allo for web” pairing screen. To get here, you’d tap “Scan QR Code”, which launches the camera to read a code, which you’d presumably get when you fire up the Allo portal. If you’ve ever paired WhatsApp to a computer or Web interface, the experience will likely be almost the same.
A couple more obscure features and tweaks have been added to Allo version 15. You can check those out by heading to the Source link for 9to5Google’s full APK teardown.
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- AnonD-79703
- 02 Aug 2017
- 8C8
they felt they lost I'm some segment and instead of being innovative they drop working solutions to make copies of what got more popular... fb/g+, gtalk / hangouts - allo (and the latter is regarded because we nicely dropped independent of the mobile...
- Anonymous
- 02 Aug 2017
- YP9
Google are trying to "innovate" for the sake of "innovating". Exactly the reason why I abandoned them. Shortly after Jellybean, google started to become hubris and queer. It could also possibly be a ploy to limit and mess up the stock apps to push pe...
- pablo
- 02 Aug 2017
- wv{
you have to ask the question. How many times will google abandon and recreate their chat client? GTALK -> Hangouts -> ALLO Why? What amazing superior improvement did they make that warranted wasting so much time? Whatsapp, Messenger & W...
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