shBullet update enables you to reply to Hangouts messages from your browser

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Published 27 Aug 2014

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shBullet is one of those popular indie apps that’s always worth the download. It’s extremely useful if you tend to leave your phone lying around. The app’s latest update will make it even easier to use more of your phone’s features from your desktop.

Now you can reply to text messages in Hangouts directly from the shBullet browser app. It works for Hangouts messages, if use Hangouts to hle SMS messages on your Android phone, it’ll work with those as well. en you reply, the pop-up will disappear you can go back to what you were doing until the person on the other end sends yet another message. It’ll update accordingly on your phone, too. 

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I actually sent this message from my computer.

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To which the recipient replied as if he were a bird. Hmph.

This update finally brings universal support to Android’s native messaging service. eviously, shBullet’s text messaging feature only supported a limited list of third-party apps. Maybe will take this as a hint that it should enable Android users to completely control their devices from within a browser. uldn’t that be sweet?

You can grab the shBullet app from the ay Store, though you’ll have to also have the Chrome extension or application to get the full functionality.