CrazRoid: "The great thing that Google did to their Hangouts app for Android was the SMS and MMS integration. Which allowed users to send and receive SMS/MMS via the Hangouts app instead of using the native messaging app on their phone."
Google Hangouts is dying - get your data out while you can.
The migration starts today.
Draw with your face? Conference call ping pong? Not any more. Google today quietly revealed that it will shut down the Hangouts API, preventing new apps from being built and shutting off existing apps on April 25th.