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tdryer / hangups

the first third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts
https://hangups.readthedocs.io/
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Card messages #514

Closed plumdog closed 3 years ago

plumdog commented 3 years ago

I found the following Google docs: https://developers.google.com/hangouts/chat/reference/message-formats/cards

These seem to suggest some interesting options for some rich messages that seem to have more options than https://hangups.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/high_level.html#chat-message-segment. Even further, there are interactive cards https://developers.google.com/hangouts/chat/how-tos/cards-onclick

I'm a bit lost as to how Google Chat and Google Hangouts are or possibly are not the same. I think they are really the same, as when I navigate to Chat, I see all my Hangouts. But perhaps there are two APIs underneath.

If they are actually basically the same, then is there a way Hangups could grow support for these richer message types?

EionRobb commented 3 years ago

They're completely different, under the hood. There's just message interop between them like there has been between XMPP(gtalk) and Hangouts