Google Chat Might be Coming Soon to Gmail on Android

Jul. 3, 2020

Google integrated its videoconferencing service, Meet, into Gmailback in April. Now the company is working on bringing full Google Chat functionality to its popular email app on Android. That’s according to9to5Google, which claims that it found hints about the upcoming feature by decompiling the latest version of the Gmail app on Android.

The strings also suggest that the functionality will be available to both enterprise and retail users. Which isn’t surprising, given that Hangouts, which wasreplaced by Chatearlier this year, was available to all Gmail users. While Hangouts is yet to be fully deprecated for consumers, Google plans to do that in the coming days. So it only makes sense for the company to make its successor available to all users.

Meanwhile, Google Meet is not yet widely available in the Gmail app on Android and iOS.Google started rolling it outback in June, but most users are yet to see it in their accounts. Given that it was rolled out on the web weeks ago, one would hope that Google would roll it out to all users on Android and iOS soon enough, so that the service can achieve feature parity across all platforms.

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