Over the years there have been several attempts to create a feature for a phone that would consolidate all of a user’s social media accounts and have all messages and content sent to the user surface in one place. HTC’s Sense user interface ‘kind of sort of’ had this with BlinkFeed. This feature allowed a user to view all of his social media content and content from other favored sources (news, calendar, weather, etc.) in one location. This saved the user from having to open multiple apps to stay updated.
BlackBerry was also close to offering a social media aggregation feature with its BlackBerry Hub. The latter would show users their SMS and BBM messages along with their social media feeds, and the latest updates from contacts all found in one inbox. Like HTC Sense, BlackBerry OS is no more.
WhatsApp API content provider sends info about WhatsApp calls and messages related to Pixel Besties to the feature. | Image credit-Android Authority
The app might even have a widget that will show aggregated bestie messages from Google Messages and WhatsApp right on the home screen of a Pixel user. WhatsApp v2.25.3.22 beta revealed a Pixel Besties API content provider that WhatsApp can access to share and post information about messages and calls related to the ‘Pixel Besties’ feature. We could see similar Pixel Besties API content providers appear in the Google Messages and Facebook Messages apps.
