Google Messaging is one of Google’s most popular apps, and many users use it every day, even without realizing that they use it. The name is quite generic and many devices come with it pre-installed as your standard SMS and RCS client. Most users should be satisfied with the functions that the application offers and have no real reason to explore alternatives. But if one of the possibly future changes materializes, they may need to look for alternatives, as new strings in the app suggest that Google Messaging will stop working on non-certified Android phones in April 2021.
Dismounting an APK can generally predict features that may arrive in a future update of an app, but it is possible that any of the features we mentioned here will not work in a future version. This is because these features are not currently implemented in live construction and can be extracted at any time by developers in a future construction.
New strings were found in Google Messages 7.2.203:
On March 31, Messages will stop working on uncertified devices, including this one. As the message makes clear, Messages will no longer work on non-certified Android devices as of March 31, 2021. Non-certified Android devices are those that work on Android, but have been ignored or disapproved in the official Google certification process for Google Mobile services. These devices do not come with mandatory Google applications, but vendors of such devices generally have advice on how users can sideload Google applications and service structures. Google put an end to these practices from device manufacturers, but Google Messaging, as an application, remained immune to the consequences of those decisions. On the one hand, Google Messages could be easily downloaded if you didn’t have it pre-installed and you didn’t need a Google login to work on your own, so it would still work on all Android devices (including new ones from Huawei).
But now that will change. If you have a non-certified Android device, the app will not work. It is assumed to be an extension of the end-to-end implementation of RCS encryption, as Google will not be able to guarantee if an uncertified device is not compromised and the consequent conversation of the users of these devices is not compromised in any way Considering how small would be the user base in the big world of active Android devices with GMS, this would be a small plug for Google.