{"id":265043,"date":"2018-06-19T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T07:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265043"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T07:33:45","slug":"google-rolls-out-android-messages-for-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/265043-google-rolls-out-android-messages-for-web.html","title":{"rendered":"Google rolls out Android Messages for web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/topics\/rcs\/five-new-features-try-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolling out<\/a><\/strong> its upgraded Messages platform to desktop web browsers, allowing users to send and receive texts from their PC.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will become available for users this week, and can be enabled by selecting &#8220;Messages for web&#8221; under the More options menu in the mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Users can then visit <a href=\"https:\/\/messages.android.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>messages.android.com<\/strong><\/a> and scan a QR code presented in their web browser to start texting from their PC.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile app is also getting support for inline GIF searches, Google&#8217;s Smart Reply recommendations, and link previews within conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, one-time passwords received in the Messages app can now be copied with a single tap.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/264905-google-investing-550-million-in-chinese-ecommerce-company.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google investing $550 million in Chinese ecommerce company<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out its upgraded Messages platform to desktop web browsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":265045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[41580,51741,167],"class_list":["post-265043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-android-messages","tag-browser-based-texting","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265043"}],"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=265043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265065,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265043\/revisions\/265065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}