Monday, October 14, 2013

Android 4.4 KitKat will let you choose your own default texting app


Android users will be able to choose third-party apps to handle their text messaging by default when the operating system's next big update, version 4.4 KitKat, eventually launches. On its developer blog, Google notes that many third-party SMS and MMS apps have already been made using workarounds to gain access to users' texts — a method that it doesn't quite condone. To remedy that, Google will begin supplying a proper way for them to be accessed in KitKat, alongside the option to choose a default app to handle them.


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Source: The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/14/4838696/android-kitkat-allows-default-third-party-texting-apps-sms-mms

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