Google Allo Debuts Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Stickers

Back in September, Google debuted Google Allo, its latest instant messaging app for smartphones. While the app rapidly amassed over 10 million downloads, its popularity started dropping soon afterward that initial surge. Now, the Google Allo squad is plain hard at work developing new features and polishing the existing offerings in hopes of getting users to give the said IM app some other gamble, but that'south not the only manner Google is trying to get people to use Allo. Namely, the Mountain View-based tech giant has recently been busy with offering various sticker packs following the latest pop trends. As it turns out, a new Star Wars movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is hitting the theaters next Friday, so y'all don't have to guess twice what the full general public will be talking about in the coming weeks.

Following that railroad train of thought, Google but announced a new set of Google Allo stickers designed later some iconic Star Wars characters which are bound to brand an appearance in the upcoming spinoff movie. The "Rogue I Pack" features 5 animated stickers which, amid other characters, depict the moving-picture show protagonist Jyn Erso, a heedless Stormtrooper, and a rather aroused Darth Vader. Yous tin see all of the new stickers in the gallery below. According to Google'southward Chad Lancaster, the Rogue 1 sticker pack for Google Allo will be bachelor for download from the in-app sticker store later today.

Now, the sticker shop isn't the most obvious feature of this IM app, so if you want to access it, bring up any chat window and tap on the sticker search icon located in the bottom-right of the user interface, correct adjacent to the voice-to-text symbol. In the new window, gyre to the far right and tap on the 3-dot icon which will bring up a list of your downloaded stickers. From here, tap on the "add sticker" symbol located in the center-right of the screen and y'all'll be presented with the in-app sticker store. All Google Allo sticker packs are provided to users at no charge, so feel complimentary to download as many as y'all like. At this moment, the Rogue One sticker pack still isn't available for download, merely it volition hopefully hit the in-app store in a few hours.