Beeper Mini is a new app that will people with Androids to use iMessage. It means Android users can send blue-bubble texts, voice messages, and reactions to iPhone users. The prototype was made by a ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

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As Android smartphone owners wait for Apple to implement RCS support to its iPhones, they can take advantage of an app called Beeper Mini that will get rid of the green bubbles when texting with an ...

Google is developing a feature that will enable any app to be opened in a bubble on Android smartphones and accessed from a new Bubble Bar. The new bubble bar, combined with the “bubble anything” ...

If you're the kind of person who tends to have multiple conversations at once, hopping between your messaging apps and whatever else you're doing, you know how tedious it can be to switch between them ...

Google is developing a new way to multitask on Android, taking advantage of the bubble system previously only found in messaging apps. The new system will enable one-tap multitasking, making things ...

Over the past few years, Google has made major changes to the Android OS to better accommodate tablets and other large-screen devices. These include new features like a taskbar, desktop windowing, ...

Apple has blocked Beeper Mini, which lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhones. The tech giant said the app “exploited fake credentials” and posed a security and privacy risk. The move has ...