In an effort to keep up with Google Hangouts on Android, Samsung has baked SMS and MMS integration into the latest version of its ChatON messaging app. The service will now roll your instant messages and traditional text messages into one conversation, so you only need to keep up with one thread.

Facebook is hard at work on delivering a much-needed redesign to its Android app, and we have an early glimpse at what the new design will look like thanks to these leaked screenshots. It’s much “flatter” and cleaner than the existing design — a lot like the new Facebook Messenger app — and it makes the app look much more likes its counterparts for iOS and Windows Phone.

Twitter hopes to compete with instant messaging services like WhatsApp and Line with a new app that’s dedicated to direct messaging, AllThingsD reports. The company hopes the move will bring “the long-buried feature to the forefront” and place a new emphasis on its private messaging capabilities.

When Google launched Hangouts back in May, the company promised that the service would one day get SMS integration on Android — just like Facebook Messenger has. And it appears that this, along with video sharing, is imminent after the Google Hangouts version 1.3 update was leaked this week.

On Tuesday, we showed you how to access Facebook’s hidden stickers within Chat Heads on Android, but as of today, they are no longer a buried treasure. Thanks to a new update to Facebook Messenger, stickers are officially supported on Android.