Abstract
- Google Messages is testing a brand new animation in its newest beta (v20250115_03_RC00) that makes despatched and acquired messages develop from a small bubble/capsule form to fill their house within the chat
- The brand new animation provides a contact of visible polish to the messaging expertise, contrasting with the present, extra simplistic slide-up animation much like WhatsApp.
- Whereas the present animation gives a cleaner look, the brand new one brings a bit extra dynamism. Whether or not this variation will make it to the secure launch is but to be seen.
Google Messages has change into the first RCS messaging app for a lot of, no less than within the US, due to its integration with Android and a continually increasing characteristic set that improves each performance and consumer expertise.
Previously one-week alone, we have reported on essential Google Messages updates, together with twin SIM RCS help touchdown for extra, the app’s in-development native backup software, the choice to swap out contacts’ Google account profile footage with completely different ones, and the progress it has made in integrating the Messaging Layer Safety (MLS) customary for safe cross-platform RCS messaging.
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Regardless of all of the options talked about above being tied to increasing and enhancing the app’s core performance and safety, Google additionally appears to be taking note of the finer particulars. After testing out a tweak to the app’s textual content subject, Google now appears to be testing out a change to how messages (despatched and acquired) floor on the chat window.
As highlighted by Android Authority, the brand new message animation was noticed in Google Messages 20250115_03_RC00 beta. Though not very apparent at first look, messages within the beta begin as a small bubble/capsule and develop to refill their designated spot inside the chat window. The brand new animation works throughout common SMS and RCS messages.
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Beforehand, each despatched and acquired messages merely appeared on the chat window, sliding up from the textual content field. This was much like how messages seem on WhatsApp.
For what it is price, we expect each animations have their deserves. The previous design (which is the present design for a majority of us proper now) provided a cleaner and simplistic consumer expertise, whereas the brand new one positive provides a contact of visible aptitude to the platform. Whereas doubtless not the case, we’re hoping that Google lets customers toggle between the 2 — that’s, if the brand new animation makes its option to secure.
