We published at the beginning of January article on applications Google Phone a Google News which they replaced in newer Xiaomi smartphones and Redmi original MIUI applications. Now we have learned about the upcoming improvement, which is at least a small patch for the losses caused.
New applications did not please users
As many of us have noticed, the original Messages and Phone apps and its related Contacts app were in newer Xiaomi smartphones and Redmi replaced by applications from Google. These are only the global and European versions of the smartphones.
Representatives of Xiaomi justified this by standards and regulations of the European Union, which would not meet their original applications.
Users did not evaluate these steps positively, because they lost a pleasant user interface and especially the synchronization of all the data they were used to. Apps from Google look different at first glance, some elements have a different layout.
In addition to the graphical interface, some popular features have also disappeared. For example, it is the management of contacts or their storage in the device memory, which is not possible after the new one. Many users also lack the popular phone call recording feature, which has also disappeared with application changes.
Under pressure from the public, Xiaomi promised to try to re-incorporate the function, but many of us were skeptical.
Google is working to improve the Phone app
But now the good news is coming. Skillful programmers from the portal xda-developers.com took a look at the latest upcoming version of the Phone app and found the expected improvements there.
Google Phone version no. 43.0.289191107 was recently introduced for the Google Pixel 4 smartphone. After decoding the sources, it was discovered that Google had added a new layout, icon and other elements related to recording calls in the dialing application. The new strings also indicate that there will be a button during the call to start a new recording.
This is what the new code looks like in the application:
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Recording
Phone call audio recording is a feature that was previously possible in Android versions before Android 9 Pie. On Android 9 Pie, Google has disabled the capabilities that developers used to record audio during phone calls.
Users who wanted to record calls had to rely on third-party applications and many times had to software unlock their smartphone - the so-called "root" - in order to use the feature.
Details of the application's functionality are not yet known
Even after adding this code, we don't know if Google will allow call recording for all Google Phone users. As the improvement was promised by Xiaomi, there is a presumption that this new feature should primarily apply to the brand's smartphones.
However, there is nothing in the code for this feature that specifically requires a Xiaomi phone, so it should be easy for Google to allow users of Pixel and Android One smartphones as well.
Despite adding these new resources to the Google Phone app, the call recording button has not yet appeared in the latest version of the app. it is not yet clear whether the possibility of automatic recording will be added, as was the case in the phone application from MIUI.
