{"id":171745,"date":"2016-07-13T09:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T07:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171745"},"modified":"2016-07-13T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T07:36:26","slug":"google-hangouts-on-android-gets-video-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/171745-google-hangouts-on-android-gets-video-messaging.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Hangouts on Android gets video messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out\u00a0the ability to record and send video messages in Hangouts to its Android platform, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/9to5google.com\/2016\/07\/12\/hangouts-for-android-v11-finally-adds-video-messaging-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">9to5Google reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hangouts users on iOS have had the feature\u00a0since February 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The update to Google Hangouts on Android (version 11) is not on Google Play yet, but 9to5Google said the\u00a0APK has made its way to the web.<\/p>\n<p>While the feature is enabled in the app, it\u00a0does not work\u00a0at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Google has also updated the iOS version to increase the maximum length of video messages from 1 minute to 2 minutes, and the ability to kick someone out of a Hangouts group.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to merge SMS and Hangouts conversations in the Android version has been removed from version 11.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Google said it did this because it\u00a0caused confusion and had low usage.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google Hangouts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/145485-google-hangouts-improves-video-quality.html\"><strong>Google Hangouts improves video quality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/135464-google-hangouts-revamped-web-app-launched.html\"><strong>Google Hangouts revamped web app launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/109662-free-voice-calls-through-google-hangouts.html\"><strong>Free voice calls through Google Hangouts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out the ability to record and send video messages in Hangouts to its Android platform, 9to5Google reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,397,167,19508],"class_list":["post-171745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google","tag-google-hangouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171773,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171745\/revisions\/171773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}