Google Assistant brings that power to your texts and chats.
Assistant is handy whenever youre making plans with other people.
For example, say youre trying to find a place to eat.
Tap one and you might get directions, call the restaurant, or view the menu.
Assistant also remembers its own context.
For example, if you tap a restaurant, you might then ask Is it open?
and Google understands that it refers to the restaurant youre looking at.
It will then tell you whether or not the place is open and what its hours are if necessary.
These will be simple replies like Thanks!, Sounds good!
In the Google Assistant chat conversation, you might tap the microphone to record a voice command.
Say something like Set a reminder for noon and Assistant will start the process to add a reminder.
Heres where it gets interesting, though.
Google Assistant will reply with Whats the reminder?
you’ve got the option to even leave the conversation entirely and finish later.
Assistant will remember exactly where you are.
The annotation tools are a little bare-bones right now.
They also store your chat logs by default.
All of this is, according to Google, necessary to for Assistant to work.
Fortunately, if youd like your privacy, it’s possible for you to enable Incognito chats.
In this mode, your chats usethe end-to-end Signal Protocolto keep your messages secure.
This also means that even Google cant read your messages.
Practical, perhaps, but they didnt offer much to make people actuallywantto use them.
Out of the box, it supports a bunch of sticker packs and lets you download even more.
Google Assistant even lets you play games with your chat partners.
Is there any good reason why my chat app needs to have an Emoji Riddle game?
No, but itsfun.
