A certain Google Messenger app was leaked earlier this year when Android Lollipop was first dropped, a strange sight seeing as Google went to all the effort of including SMS support in the Google Hangouts app. All the same, whatever Google has in mind in the long term, it has officially released Google Messenger 1.0 onto the Play Store for all to use.
As you might expect, the Google Messenger app is for SMS messages only, but it’s actually a pretty neat app. Material Design, of course, it colours the conversations with each of your contacts in the colour of their contact card, which is a nice touch, and makes it a snap to add photos and media into your messages. Unusually, the Messenger app doesn’t quite follow the conventions of the other Google core apps (not that the conventions are particularly consistent anyway), with the app employing a 3-dot settings drop down rather than the slide out menu. Still, it’s a sweet app, and if you’re looking for something a little less green (i.e. Hangouts) to handle your SMS’s in, then you can hit the download link below, or hit the Google Play Store to download.
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Google Messenger 1.0 APK download
Source: Google Play
