Google's bad habit of using generic white backgrounds with the adaptive icons for its apps has left most of them looking like a miniature icon on a dinner plate. It looked particularly weird with Allo because the icon itself was already formed as a stack of white on top of yellow, and the additional background resulted in an onion-like set of layers that didn't work well.
If you're a newcomer to Allo, or just setting up a new phone, v22 will now welcome you to the experience with this cute screen.
I normally don't bring up things like a new welcome screen, but I wanted to point out that this screen emphasizes group chats. It's a small detail, but it is consistent with the recent focus on outfitting Allo to work well for chatrooms.
There's a slightly revised 'start chat' screen appearing on some devices. Just to be clear, this appears to be an A/B test, as it's only showing up on one of my phones and not the other, even though they are running the same version. I'm not sure if this began with previous versions, but it only just started for me with the update to v22.
In the previous setup screen, you could search for an individual and start a solo chat with them immediately, or tap on buttons to begin setting up a group chat, and there were also buttons for incognito variants of both solo and group chats. The new version does away with the buttons for launching group chats. Instead, you'll simply begin picking people for the chat and hit 'done' when you're finished. If there's only one person in the list, Allo creates a solo chat with just that person, otherwise it opens a group chat with everybody.
Audio notes are a cool, albeit probably underutilized feature of Allo. One problem with using them is that you might not be in a setting where you can stop to listen to one.
Maybe you're in a quiet library or a loud concert. Either way, you'll soon be able to have Allo transcribe these notes into readable text on your screen. Transcriptions appear to be in testing now, and may be enabled by default once they go live. Once active, transcriptions are probably going to look pretty similar to language translations.
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Version: 22.0.023_RC06
Source:AndroidPolice
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