Google Allo

ABSTRACT
Google Allo is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging application for smart phones.
Moreover, to smart messaging Allo users can send each other images, sticker, and video as well
as audio media messages. The client software is available for Google Android, Apple iOS.
Allo is mobile app developed by Google that includes a virtual assistant and provides a "smart
reply" function that allows users to reply without typing.
It was announced at Google I/O on May 18, 2016 and launched on September 21, 2016.Allo is
not compatible with only Android but it is available for iOS. Allo synchronizes with the phones
contacts book, so users do not need to add contacts in a separate book.
Alls Smart reply function uses Google's machine learning technology to suggest a reply to the
last message, which can be selected from a few options. The feature also analyses images sent to
the user in order to suggest responses. Similar to the smart reply feature seen in
Googles Inbox app, it learns from the users behaviour to adapt its suggestions over time. Allo is
one of the apps that support Google Assistant, a conversational virtual assistant.
Whisper Shout allows the user to increase or decrease the size of a message to represent
volume. Allo also lets users draw on photos before sending them.

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background
Google Allo, a smart messaging app that helps you say more and do more. Express yourself
better with stickers, doodles, and HUGE emojis & text. Allo brings you the Google Assistant,
preview edition.
It is application for messaging developed by Google X labs slated to run on the Android and iOS.
Allo was announced at Google I/O on May 18, 2016. At the time, Google said that it would release
Allo in summer 2016. Google launched the app on September 21, 2016. It was mentioned during the
#MadeByGoogle event on October 4th, 2016.

Fig. 1.1 Google allo

Allos Smart reply function uses Googles machine learning technology to suggest a reply to the
last message, which can be selected from a few options. The feature also analyses images sent to the
user in order to suggest responses. Similar to the smart reply feature seen in Google's Inbox app, it
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learns from the user's behaviour to adapt its suggestions over time. Allo is one of the apps that
support Google Assistant, a conversational virtual assistant.

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1.2 Software Specification

Developer(s) : Google
Stable release: Android and iOS
Development status : Active
Available in : English
Type : Instant Messaging
Website : allo.google.com

1.3 Achievements

It has more than 5 million downloads within a week.

Allo has a rating of 4.2 out of 5 for its current version.
It hits the top of Play Store charts.

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CHAPTER 2
FEATURES
2.1 Smart Reply
Respond to messages without typing a single word. Smart Reply learns over time and suggests
responses to text and photos, in your style

Fig 2.1 smart reply

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2.2 Ink
Get creative with the photos you send by doodling on them or adding text. You can draw on
photos in messages with Ink. Add text with your keyboard or write a message on your Note: This
feature is currently only available on Android devices.
Steps for Ink:
Open Allo.
Tap the chat where you want to send the photo.
Tap Add
Tap Insert photo : Choose a photo from your device's library or take a photo.
Tap Edit .
Marker : To write a message with your finger, tap the marker icon and choose a color.
Text : To type with the keyboard, tap the text icon and type your message. Then tap

done .
Undo : If you make a mistake that you want to erase, tap Undo
Then tap Send

2.3 Stickers
Say it all with the perfect sticker. Stickers in Google Allo are designed by independent artists and
studios from around the world.
Steps:
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Tap the chat to add media to.

Tap Add .
Choose one of the following:
Take photo : Take a photo or a video. If you want to draw on the photo, tap Edit

Then tap Send .

Insert photo : Choose a photo or video from your device's library. If you want to draw
on the photo, tap Edit

. Drawing on photos only works on Android devices. When

you're done, tap Send .

Stickers : Stickers are sent as messages right away. Add more stickers by tapping Add
stickers

. Under "Add Stickers," you can also see if any new sticker sets are available.

To download available sticker sets, tap Download .

Share location : Choose your current location or another location nearby. Tap Send .
See the media you've shared
To see what you've shared with a contact, go to your chat, tap the profile icon Chat details
shared media

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Fig 2.3 Stickers

2.4 SHOUT or Whisper

No more typing in ALL CAPS to get your point across. Say it louder or quieter by changing the
size of your text with a quick swipe. You can adjust the size of the text in your Google Allo
messages.
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Steps

whisper to your friends in tiny text

SHOUT to them in big letters
To whisper or shout to a contact:
Type your message.
Press and hold the send icon .
Slide up the blue bar to shout or down to whisper.
To send your message, remove your finger.
To cancel your message, slide your finger to the left until the blue bar disappears.

Fig 2.4 Shout

2.5 GROUP CHAT

You can start a group chat with friends through Google Allo. You can message anyone in your
contacts who has Allo or who can be reached through an app preview message or an SMS
notification.
Groups are limited to 256 people. If you can't send a message using Allo, you'll see "Invite" next
to the contact's name
Steps to start a new group chat

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Open Allo.
Tap New Chat and Start group chat.
From the Contacts list, tap the names of the people you want to chat with. You can also

search for their names or numbers.

Tap Next.
Name the group chat. You can also add a photo or choose an avatar. If you don't want to

name the chat or add a photo, tap Done.

Enter your message and tap Send
If you can't send a message using Allo, you'll see "Invite" next to the contact's name.
Add someone to a group chat
Tap the group chat you want to add someone to.
In the upper right, tap the profile icon
Tap the name(s) to add to the group.
Tap Done.
Leave a group chat
When you leave a group, your group chat history will be deleted from your device. But
the messages won't be deleted on other people's devices.

2.6 SEE, DELETE, OR CLEAR YOUR CHAT HISTORY

You can see, delete or clear your chat history with your contacts in Allo.
Your Allo conversations are stored on your device and Google's servers. You can delete
conversations or clear your message history within conversations in Allo only on your
own device. The messages won't be deleted or cleared on the devices of the people you

chatted with.
To delete your chats with your Google Assistant, youll need to delete the activity in your

one-on-one chat setting with your Google Assistant.

See your chat history
You'll see a list of your recent conversations when you open Allo. To see specific

messages in your chat history:

Open the conversation you want to view.
Scroll up or down to find the message or messages you're looking for.
Delete a conversation

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When you delete a conversation, the entire conversation will be deleted and removed
from your conversation list. Keep in mind that this is for your chats with contacts only,

not with your Google Assistant.

Open Allo.
Tap and hold the conversation you want to change settings for.
Tap Delete.
Delete a specific message
To delete a specific message inside a conversation:
Open Allo.
Tap the conversation you want to change settings for.
Press and hold the message until a menu appears at the top of the screen.
Tap Delete.
Clear history
When you clear the history of a conversation, youll delete the messages within the chat.

But the conversation will stay in your conversation list without any messages.
Open Allo.
Tap the conversation you want to change settings for.
In the upper right, tap the profile icon and clear history

2.7 SEARCH IN MESSAGES

You can search for keywords from past messages in Google Allo. This is currently only

available on Android devices.

Search all messages
Open Allo.
Tap Search .
Type in the text you want to search for, and youll see a list of results with the text

highlighted.
Search within one conversation
Open Allo.
Tap the conversation you want to search in.
In the upper right, tap the profile icon and search.

2.8 SEE IF MESSAGE HAS BEEN READ

You can find the status of a message you sent on Allo on the right side of the message.

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This will only work if you sent the message to Allo users. If you've invited non-Allo
users and are messaging them outside of the app, you may not see the message delivery

indicators.
Sending : The message is still being sent.
Sent : The message was sent to Google servers.
Delivered : : The recipient received the message.
Read : The recipient has read your message. Tap the message to find out what time it

was read.
Note: In group messages, the status will update when all contacts receive or read your

message.
Message isn't sending
If you're having problems sending a message, check to make sure you have a strong data
or Wi-Fi connection.

2.9 CHAT IN PRIVATE WITH INCOGNITO MODE

By chatting in Incognito mode, you can have a more private and secure conversation with
another person in Google Allo.

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Fig 2.5 Incognito mode

Steps:

Start a chat in Incognito mode

Open Allo.
Tap New Chat
Start incognito chat .
From the Contacts list, tap the person's name you want to start a chat with. You can also

search for the person's name or number.

What happens in Incognito mode
You won't be able to preview your message in the Allo conversation list. You'll just see

that you or the other person "sent a message."

Notifications won't display who sent the message or its content. If you want to turn off

notifications entirely, go to Menu

Settings Notifications.
Your chats are end-to-end encrypted and can only be seen by you and the person you're
chatting with. Google can't read any of your messages, so you won't see any Smart Reply
or Google Assistant features.

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When you receive a sticker from a sticker pack that you dont have, Allo will download it

securely from Googles servers, but without using end-to-end encryption.

Set messages to expire
In incognito mode, you can set the messages to disappear after a period of time. The

default period is 1 hour, but you can change it.

Open Allo.
Tap New Chat
Start incognito chat .
In the top right corner, tap the timer .
You can choose to never expire your messages. Or choose after how long you want your
messages to disappear: Never, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 1 hour, 1

day, or 1 week.
For the sender: The timer starts when the message is sent.
For the receiver: The timer starts when the message is read.
Within the same chat, you and the recipient share the same timer setting. But you can set

a different timer each time you start a new chat.

Important: Allo users who receive your messages can use other ways to save them, like
taking a screenshot or by taking a photo

2.9 SHARE PHOTOS, VIDEOS, STICKERS, OR YOUR LOCATION

You can add fun to your chats by sending media or your location. Send photos, videos, or
stickers to show how you feel or what you're doing.
Steps:

Tap the chat to add media to.

Tap Add .
Choose one of the following:
Take photo : Take a photo or a video. If you want to draw on the photo, tap Edit
Then tap Send

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Insert photo

: Choose a photo or video from your device's library. If you want to draw

on the photo, tap Edit

you're done, tap Send .

Stickers : Stickers are sent as messages right away. Add more stickers by tapping Add
stickers

. Drawing on photos only works on Android devices. When

. Under "Add Stickers," you can also see if any new sticker sets are available.

To download available sticker sets, tap Download .

Share location : Choose your current location or another location nearby. Tap Send .
See the media you've shared
To see what you've shared with a contact, go to your chat, tap the profile icon Chat
details

shared media.

CHAPTER 3
GOOGLE ASSISTANCE
Google Assistant is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google and announced
at Google I/O May 2016. It is considered an extension of Google Now. Unlike Google Now,
Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations. The assistant is currently integrated in
the Allo app. It will also be included in Google Home, a smart voice-enabled wireless speaker,
and proposed versions of Android Wear.

Specification
Original author(s): Google
Developer(s): Google
Initial release : 2016
Development status : Active
Available in: English
Type : Intelligent personal assistants

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CHAPTER 4
HOW DOES IT WORK
At Google, we are continuously building products powered by Machine Learning to delight our
users and simplify their lives. Today, we are excited to talk about the technology behind Allo, a
new smart messaging app that uses the power of neural networks and Google Search to make
your text conversations easier and more productive.
Just like Smart Reply for Inbox, Allo understands the conversation history to generate a set of
suggestions that the user will likely want to respond with. In addition to understanding the
context of your conversation, Allo learns your individual style, so the responses are personalized
for you.

3.1Howdoesitwork?
About a year ago, we started exploring how we can make communication easier and more fun.
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The idea of Smart Reply for Allo came up in a brainstorming session with my teammates
Sushant Prakash and Ori Gershony who then helped me lead our team to build this technology.
We began by experimenting with neural network based model architectures which had proven to
be successful for sequence prediction, including the encoder-decoder model used in Smart Reply
for Inbox.
One challenge we faced was that response generation in online conversations have very strict
latency requirements. To address this, Pavel Sountsov and Sushant came up with an innovative
two-stage model that works as follows. First, a recurrent neural network looks at the
conversation context one word at a time and encodes it in the hidden state of a long short term
memory (LSTM). Below, we show an example with a context Where are you?. The context has
three tokens, each of which is embedded into a continuous space and input to the LSTM. The
LSTM state now encodes the context as a continuous vector. This vector is used to generate the
response as a discretized semantic class.

Each semantic class is associated with a set of possible messages that belong to it. We use a
second recurrent network to generate a specific message from that set. This network also
converts the context into a hidden LSTM state but this time the hidden state is used to generate
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the full message of the reply one token at a time. For example, now the LSTM after seeing the
context Where are you? generates the tokens in the response: Im at work.

A beam search is used to efficiently select the top-N highest scoring responses from among
the very large set of possible messages that a LSTM can generate. A snippet of the search
space explored by such a beam-search technique is shown below.
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As with any large-scale product, there were several engineering challenges we had to solve in
generating a set of high-quality responses efficiently. For example, in spite of the two staged
architecture, our first few networks were very slow and required about half a second to generate
a response. This was obviously a deal breaker when we are talking about real time
communication apps! So we had to evolve our neural network architecture further to reduce the
latency to less than 200ms. We moved from using a softmax layer to a hierarchical softmax layer
which traverses a tree of words instead of traversing a list of words thus making it more
efficient.
Another interesting challenge we had to solve when generating predictions is controlling for
message length. Sometimes none of the most probable responses are appropriate - if the model
predicts too short a message, it might not be useful to the user, and if we predict something too
long, it might not fit on the phone screen. We solved this by biasing the beam search to follow
paths that lead to higher utility responses instead of favoring just the responses that are most
probable. That way, we can efficiently generate appropriate length response predictions that are
useful to our users.

3.2 Personalized for you

The best part about these suggestions is that over time they are personalized to you so that your
individual style is reflected in your conversations. For example, if you often reply to How are
you? with Fine. instead of I am good., it will learn your preference and your future
suggestions will take that into account. This was accomplished by incorporating a user's "style"
as one of the features in a Neural Network that is used to predict the next word in a response,
resulting in suggestions that are customized for your personality and individual preferences. The
user's style is captured in a sequence of numbers that we call the user embedding. These
embeddings can be generated as part of the regular model training, but this approach requires
waiting for many days for training to be complete and it cannot handle more than a handful of
millions of users. To solve this issue, Alon Shafrir implemented a L-BFGS based technique to
generate user embeddings quickly and at scale. Now, you'll be able to enjoy personalized
suggestions after only a short time of using Allo.
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3.3 More than just English

The neural network model described above is language agnostic so building separate prediction
models for each language works quite well. To make sure those responses for each language
benefit from our semantic understanding of other languages, Sujith Ravi came up with a graphbased machine learning technique that can connect possible responses across languages. Dana
Movshovitz-Attias and Peter Young applied this technique to build a graph that connects
responses to incoming messages and to other responses that have similar word embeddings and
syntactic relationships. It also connects responses with similar meaning across languages based
on the machine models developed by our Translate team.
With this graph, we use semi-supervised learning, as described in this paper, to learn the
semantic meaning of responses and determine which the most useful clusters of possible
responses are. As a result, we can allow the LSTM to score many possible variants of each
possible response meaning, allowing the personalization routines to select the best response for
the user in the context of the conversation. This also helps enforce diversity as we can now pick
the final set of responses from different semantic clusters.

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Heres an example of how the graph might look for a set of messages related to greetings:

3.2 Beyond Smart Reply

I am also very excited about the Google assistant in Allo with which you can converse and
get information about anything that Google Search knows about. It understands your
sentences and helps you accomplish tasks directly from the conversation. For example, the
Google assistant can help you discover a restaurant and reserve a table from within the Allo
app when chatting with your friends. This has been made possible because of the cuttingedge research in natural language understanding that we have been doing at Google.

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CHAPTER 5
DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING
4.1 Downloading and installing
One can simply download Allo by visiting http://www. allo.google.com /download/ To
verify Allo using your own mobile number First you need to have Application installed
in your mobile and needs to have minimum balance.

Follow the steps:

Install the application.
Launch the application.
Enter your mobile number and tap on OK button.
Verification process will be completed in 10-15 secs of 10 minutes total time.
Your mobile will get register with your own SIM (mobile) number.

Suppose if the application was uninstalled, you can again install and register with the
previous number. The process will be same as the above.

4.2 Verification
To verify Allo by entering a invalid mobile number Allo not only test the mobile IMEI
numbers but also test the valid or wrong numbers. Suppose if you have entered an
invalid/wrong number. For to test this, you need to have a mobile with SIM inserted and
Allo installed and with minimum balance.
Then the procedure will be as follows:
Launch the application.
Enter any number other than your mobile number and tap on "OK" button.
Verification process continues and after 10 minutes of total time.
Your mobile gets "connection failed, reverify" popup.
This will happen because Allo will work for one number and one device. If anyone tries
to register with a invalid/wrong number, a highly secured procedure is implemented.
To verify Allo by Interchanging the SIM cards here we are going to see how Allo works
when two registered mobile numbers (SIMS) are interchanged. For this you need to have
two mobiles registered with their own mobile numbers. Now to verify the above scenario,
follow the procedure: But you need to connect to a Wi-Fi/mobile data.
Switch OFF both the mobiles A & B.
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Remove both the registered SIM cards from mobile A and B.

Insert the SIM card of mobile B in mobile A.
Insert the SIM card of mobile A in mobile B.
Turn ON mobile A.
Turn ON mobile B.
Send a message from any other mobile to mobile A removed SIM number.
Message will come to mobile A only, even though it is using mobile B SIM.
By this it is observed that Allo will work even though the SIM card is changed/removed.
But this scenario will work until we change the number in "change number" option in
settings or if we uninstall and reinstall the application.

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CHAPTER 6
PROTOCOL USED
Allo uses a customized version of the open standard Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP) Upon installation, it creates a user account using one's phone number
as the username (Jabber ID: [phone number]@s.allo.com). Allo software automatically
compares all the phone numbers from the device's address book with its central database
of Allo users to automatically add contacts to the user's Allo contact list. Previously the
Android and S40 versions used an MD5-hashed, reversed-version of the phone's IMEI as
password,[15] while the iOS version used the phone's Wi-Fi MAC address instead of
IMEI. A 2012 update now generates a random password on the server side.

5.1 XMPP:
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a communications protocol for
message-oriented middleware based on XML(Extensible Markup Language).[1] The
protocol was originally named Jabber,[2] and was developed by the Jabber open-source
community in 1999 for near real-time, instant messaging (IM), presence information, and
contact list maintenance. Designed to be extensible, the protocol has also been used for
publish subscribe systems, signaling for VoIP, video, file transfer, gaming, Internet of
Things applications such as the smart grid, and social networking services.
Unlike most instant messaging protocols, XMPP is defined in an open standard and uses
an open systems approach of development and application, by which anyone may
implement an XMPP service and interoperate with other organizations' implementations.
Because XMPP is an open protocol, implementations can be developed using any
software license; although many server, client, and library implementations are
distributed as free and open-source software, numerous freeware and commercial
software implementations also exist.

5.2 Characteristics:

Open: It's free. There are multiple implementations for open source XMPP
servers, as many customers and development libraries.

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Free: you can see how it works, and the user has the freedom to implement

himself the freedom to suit their needs, without needing anyone's approval.
Extensible: using the potential of XML, anyone can extend the XMPP protocol

for custom functionality.

Decentralized: anyone can start their own XMPP server.
Insurance: Safety supports the transport layer and any XMPP server can be
isolated from the public XMPP. \

5.3 Architecture:
Generally, XMPP is implemented and used as a client-server distributed architecture.

Fig 5.2 Architecture

When we send an XMPP message to a contact, the XMPP client connects to our XMPP
server, and it connects directly to our contact XMPP server, without performing multiple jumps.

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Fig 5.3 XMMP Architecture

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5.4 XML:
XMPP is essentially a technology for transmitting XML. Once the connection is established, we
can exchange messages asynchronously with the server. Types of XML tags to transmit different
type of messages:
Stream: Container unit is a sequence of messages XMPP.
Message: Used to send messages between users.
Presence: To report the presence of the user. This includes when they connect, disconnect, and
change state or name.
Iq : It is used for the transmission of internal commands. A new connection, report bugs &
things that have nothing to do with users.
XEP: are the set of applications that extends the different labels that supports the protocol.

5.5 Secure Communication:

The XMPP communications between clients and servers are safely implemented mainly
through two mechanisms: The TLS protocol applied to the transport layer protocol and
SASL layer applied to the Simple Authentication and Security. The TLS protocol is a
protocol for establishing a secure connection between a client and a server or between
two servers. TLS is able to authenticate on both sides of the communication, and creates
an encrypted connection between the two. If the talks were not encrypted attack would
be easy and could make it easily intercepted conversations. Such attacks are very simple,
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with a network analysis tools & protocols such as Wireshark & specific application called
Allo Xtract. XMPP SASL provides a generalized method for authentication.

5.6 Instant Messaging:

The messages are the most important part of any instant messenger system. XMPP is a message
oriented protocol, which can be of six different:

Normal: they would like messages to the email.

Chart: person who posts messages would be used in a conversation between two people.
Group chat: messages sent to a group of people.
Headline: that would be the marquee messages.
Error: for error messages.
Jabber: x: oob: for direct connections between clients for sending messages.

5.7 MD5:
The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function
producing a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value, typically expressed in text format as a 32 digit
hexadecimal number. MD5 has been utilized in a wide variety of cryptographic
applications, and is also commonly used to verify data integrity. MD5 was designed by
Ron Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function, MD4. The source code in RFC
1321 contains a "by attribution" RSA license.

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CHAPTER 7
COMPARISION

Google Allo Vs Whatsapp Vs Facebook Messenger Vs Snapchat

Google Allo: The USP for Google Allo is that it can do a lot more than regular messaging apps.
Google Assistant combines the power of search, machine learning to pitch results that are
accurate, and scarily so. You can pull the Google Assistant in the middle of a chat, ask it to look
up restaurants close by, or movie timings for later in the evening, or just play a game with the
Assistant. The app also gives auto-suggestions for replies.
Its also ahead of Whatsapp in offering support for Stickers and the ability to draw on photos and
videos (Android only). Along with Gboard on iOS, a user can also send GIFs on Allo. Theres
also an Incognito chat mode for end-to-end encryption and the chats disappear after sometime. A
user can tweak the expiration time for each message in this Incognito mode. Groups chats are
also supported on the app and a user can send an SMS for free to those who dont have the Allo
app. These replies from an SMS also come inside Allo.
The drawback: There are privacy concerns since this is not an end-to-end encrypted app and
Google is storing all your chats with Google Assistant on their servers. From a privacy
perspective the app is not so perfect. Also Google Allo doesnt support file-sharing like
Whatsapp or Telegram yet.

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Whatsapp: Whatsapp Messengers biggest plus is that its end-to-end encrypted by default. So
on Whatsapp your messages cant be read by a third-party by Whatsapp or even Facebook. Once
you delete the message it is truly gone forever. Whatsapp also support voice-calling on the app
itself. It also has support for sharing from third-party apps like Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud
and

you

can

upload

files

from

here

into

your

messages.

Whatsapp plans to get stickers, scribbling on photos, etc pretty soon as well, according to the
latest Android Beta files. In iOS, Whatsapp is integrated with Siri, and the voice-assistant can
send messages or make voice-calls directly on the app. Whatsapp is also planning to launch
services on the app and youll soon have your bank or airline messaging you on it.
The drawback: Whatsapp has recently announced a big policy change where it will start sharing
information with Facebook which is its parent company. A user can opt out of this feature, and
while no information will be posted on Facebook, other information like phone number, device
used, etc will be shared with the social media giant in order to improve ads on the website.

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Fig 6.1 Whatsapp

Facebook Messenger: Facebook Messenger also has over 1 billion monthly users, and the app
already supports voice and video-calling feature. Facebook Messenger will automatically show
all your Facebook friends in the contact lists. A user can also sync their mobile number with the
app, and give it access to their SMS app as well.
However any requests from people who are not on your friends list end up in a separate
Message Requests folder on the app. A user has the option of accepting or declining these
requests. The app also supports GIFs, Stickers as well and you can even scribble on photos
before sending to them to someone.
Facebook is also betting on chat bots for Messenger and looking to integrate more services inside
the app.
The drawback: Facebook Messenger doesnt support end-to-end encryption by default; it will
have a separate Secret Conversation mode which will do so and the messages will get deleted
after sometime. But thats yet to roll out. And just like Google Allo, regular conversations in the
app are not end-to-end encrypted.
Also the chat bots have so far not been a great success, and theres a fear theyll be too spamm

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Fig 6.2 Facebook Messenger

Snapchat: The app once known for sexting between teens has come a long way, and is now the
one that everyone is copying. From drawing on photos to face filters to Stories and Messages
that disappear after 24 hours, Snapchat has everyones interest.
Snapchat lets users share stories with a bunch of followers, and videos (up to 10 seconds)
instantly. The videos can be edited as you shoot them to add annotations, text, emojis, even a
face filter as youre recording it live. A user can also follow other important Snap chatters and
see their stories as they post them. Discover tab has content created especially for Snapchat,
which are usually videos or image-based articles.
On the messaging side, Snapchat lets you make video calls, send stickers, pictures, photos, to
your friends on the app.
The drawback: Snapchats complicated design means not everyone can figure out the app, and
it takes a while finding all the new features. Snapchat is also not end-to-end encrypted and
messages are stored on the companys servers for 30 days before they are deleted.

Fig 6.3 Snapchat

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CHAPTER 7
CONCLUSION
Application testing requires a detailed overview of the System requirements and Functional
requirements
Testing application and making it to sustain in harsh environment makes the application more
flexible and quality wise very rich.
Based on products review up gradation is done this makes application to stay alive and popular
in market.
Various robust testing makes the application capable to satisfy every requirements and needs of
the customer.
Allo on the other hand has been around for quite some time now and is being used by most and
offers functionality like text based messaging and files transfers.

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CHAPTER 8
FUTURE SCOPE
Allo has amazing features but still needs some improvement. The messaging features are great,
But the integration with SMS is non-existent. There is no quick reply from the notification as
there are most messaging apps, Such as Google messenger or hangouts. There is not good
support for android, which should allow users to read through there chats and reply message.

REFRENCES
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Allo
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2. https://allo.google.com/
3. http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
4. http://indianexpress.com/article/technology
5. http://www.forbes.com

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