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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by jansenv on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:24PM (#13468560)
Hangouts API is discontinuing, and the app is buggy as heck. We've already moved away from it and are experimenting with in-house solutions or looking for alternatives. Slack is too pricey, everything else seems shite.
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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by djsumdog on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:02AM (#13469389)
You mean Google is discontinuing the API? (They had an API? They removed XMPP federation and eventually support, if that's what you mean).

The libpurple/Hangups projects for chat clients is the work of reverse engineering the existing Hangouts protocol (which apparently heavily relies on protocol buffers).

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by detaro on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:06AM (#13469398)
Yes, they had an API which could control and customize Hangouts https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/
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