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As the culture of work from home and virtual meetings grow amid the times of pandemic, video-calling apps are exceedingly becoming popular among the people. Over a period of months, Zoom has maintained an unhindered monopoly by providing its users the engaging and interactive features.
To make user-experience better and hassle-free, now the company has introduced several new updates to its Android version of the app. Interestingly, the slew of new modifications include video calling background, audio sharing, breakout room, enhanced chat features and many bug fixes.
* Audio sharing: During the screen sharing, Zoom on Android will allow audio sharing without any interference from the microphone. It will also allow Calendar syncing for getting timely reminders of the meetings. Besides that, the app also brings in enhanced scheduling through default settings.
* Breakout room: The brand-new update now will give user to self-select the Breakout room, in case the host divides the zoom meeting with more than 50 people into multiple chat rooms.
* Enhances chat features: In addition, Chat features have also received impressive updates consisting of the option of hiding chatbots in IM list while enabling the facility of marking images and files as ‘unread’. Some new introductions also enhance link preview along with enhanced search options.
As per a report from Android Police, Zoom Android app has now disabled its support on Chromebook, this means that the app can’t be downloaded anymore from Play store on Chromebook. In addition, Zoom brings several minor bug fixes, it has fixed the issues of the breakout room not following the main session’s modified settings.
