Components
Antox is an open source application that is capable of sending messages and making calls to friends. Antox aims to bring the full multimedia support offers to your device, It is a very unique app that allow you connect to your friends and love ones easily. it has quite countless features which are the reason for its uniqueness but there are still some improvement needed as I’ve used the app for some times and discover these facts. i will like to give my proposition in the next headline.
Proposal
Using Antox has been a unique experience because of its quick delivery of messages and other special features attached to it. AS fast as the message delivery is, it has no capacity to show whether a message has been read or not. When message Is sent, the only thing it displays is the time it was sent , no clue to whether the message has been seen/read. AS this app doesn’t show a sign to show read messages, there is also no sign to know whether someone is typing to reply or not. This makes users chat blindly. On this note I will like to suggest that there should be
.1 sign to show that message has been read by recipient.
.2 typing………… should be shown while either or both users are writing a message.
Double mark with green/blue color will show if the message has been read and
typing will show at the top of the screen to show that message is being typed on the other end.
Mockups / Examples
images of antox app and another app (whatsapp) having the proposed sign for read messages
image of antox app before and after adding the sign to show whether a message has been read or not.
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image of the two users showing where first user is typing a message and the other user sees a typing....sign to know that the other user is about to reply his message
Benefits
The advantage of these features is not farfetched, it gives the sender the assurance that the message sent has been read by the recipient.
Showing a sign that a message has been read by a recipient is also beneficial as one will be sure that the message was received and consumed.in some cases it will be difficult for a recipient to deny the fact that message isn't read because of the notification sign seen by the sender.
Showing typing……… will allow users to know that there is a kind of reply action going on on the other end. It makes conversation interesting knowing that the person you are chatting with is about to reply to your message, this gives rise to a long conversation between the parties because the feature make the chat more real and not chatting blindly.
Having these aforementioned features will make antox more unique. users and potential users will be more glad to use the application more and this will improve its popularity.
Thanks.
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