Instagram continues to include news little by little. The latest revelations for the immediate future come from your code. There they have found clues that the Facebook-owned application is preparing to add calls and video calls.
Instagram continues to grow: now it will integrate video calls
Instagram has moved away from the simple feed of images that it was in its beginnings. From that timeline of photographs, it has evolved to the Stories concentrated in the upper menu that show little bits of the day to day of each person. The social network has drastically mutated, and the next change directly attacks person-to-person communications.
And it is that from Instagram they are looking to further enhance their chat service. Directly has already become a separate application (and another dart thrown at Snapchat) and now it is working on implementing voice calls and video calls.
The images and icons that you see in the screenshot above come from app code analysis from Instagram and Direct. The description of each of them leaves little room for doubt regarding the implementation of calls and video calls. Although they are not yet active, these preliminary steps are usually taken to activate in a relatively short time. This allows you to hide the update and simply activate it when the time comes. Analyzing the icons, we see a simple image of a phone for voice calls and a simple image of a camera for video calls, as well as files with code for both actions.
One more chat application for Facebook
At present, Facebook dominates the landscape of social media and instant messaging communications. Facebook e Instagram are the most used networks, and among WhatsApp y Messenger they dominate the vast majority of the market. However, each of these apps draws attention to different targets, and on Facebook they see a market in implementing an improved chat on Instagram.
For the younger generations, it would mean not having to leave the app to find out what their friends are doing and communicate with them. With dependence on mobile data and the abandonment of traditional voice calls, for many it would not make sense to leave Instagram to do something they can do inside of it. The experience with the implementation of these systems in WhatsApp and Messenger should help the process. If they succeed, Facebook It would accomplish something monstrous: further dominate the instant messaging industry.
