Kik Messenger updated with in-app browser and Material Design

April 14, 2015

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Kik Messenger users, who now total more than two hundred million, can head to the Play Store and update their beloved messaging application. The latest version of the app removes the sidebar and replaces it with an in-app browser. Everything is now funneled into Kik Messenger rather than having to redirect users elsewhere. Kik Messenger also has a new look for users with Android 5.0 Lollipop devices. Within conversation, too, there are changes. Users have twenty-two chat bubble colors to choose from.

Hit the break for the changelog, gallery, and download links.

What's New

8.2.0
– So long sidebar! Access your favorite webpages through the web button
– We've heard you loud and clear. Now you can choose from 22 different chat bubble colors

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Source: Kik

Justin Herrick Author

Born and raised in New Jersey, Justin is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he studied marketing with a focus on digital marketing. He's very talkative and enjoys discussing anything from technology and sports to video games and television. As for Justin's current device rotation, he carries around the Google Pixel and Nexus 9. In the rare case that his phone or tablet is not in his hand, he is either flicking through cards on his Moto 360 (2015) or typing away on the Microsoft Surface Book. Justin is patiently waiting for the day that Google replicates the Galaxy Nexus with modern day specifications.

4 comments

Ahliya says:

April 14, 2015 at 10:33 PM

I can only pull smapchat pics and recent pics from my gallery which sucks

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Blane Stroud says:

April 14, 2015 at 6:49 PM

This is not material design. It looks exactly as it did before minus the side menu.

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1. Justin_Herrick says:
  
  April 14, 2015 at 9:40 PM
  
  Status bar matches colors (KitKat) and a search button now floats on the bottom right (Lollipop/Material Design). The app does resemble Material Design to an extent.
  
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  1. Blane Stroud says:
    
    April 15, 2015 at 4:04 PM
    
    A kitkat feature and a limited search button do not represent some shift in design language.
    
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