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The Android market is flooded with popular and capable messenger apps WhatsApp, LINE, Tango, Viber etc.
However, there are a selection of messenger apps that are rising in popularity among the younger generation of texters.
The following are messenger apps that offer attractive features which make their product exciting, unique and entertaining.
Kik is the first Android messenger with a built-in browser: you can share anything from the web without leaving the Kik app.
Sharing music on Kik with your friends is easy; simply input SoundCloud into Kik's search bar and it will open the music program's mobile app!
Kik boasts more than 120 million users and is aimed at users in their late teens: you need to be aged 17 or older to download Kik.
One element that makes Kik different is that it's a free messenger app that doesn't require a phone number to use, simply a unique username!
Younger messenger users are attracted to Kik for a variety of reasons; it doesn't have a character limit and its design is clean, bright and attractive.
Hike is an Indian messenger app that allows you to share text messages, photos, video, send short voice messaging and engage in group chats.
Hike is particularly popular with young people: of its 15 million+ users, 80% are under 25.
Hike contains an offline feature which lets users send chat messages to non-Hike users via SMS.
This also means that Hike users can send messages to their fellow Hike friends even when they are offline.
If you like to chat while traveling, Hike's extensive offline features mean that your conversation will never be halted by a poor internet connection.
Hike also provides all the features of the most popular messengers, including efficiecy, stickers, and location sharing.
If privacy is your main priority then Telegram is the app for you.
Telegram provides all the great functions of popular texting apps such as location features, attachment options and status customization.
But where Telegram trumps all competition is in relation to security.
It includes a built-in feature called "Secret Chat" which offers end-to-end encryption for messages sent on Telegram.
This means that no traces of your messages will be stored on the company's servers.
Telegram are so confident about the MTProto protocol they use to protect messages that they have offered $200,000 to anyone who can crack it!
Telegram also allows its user to send messages that automatically self-destruct on whatever devices they are sent to or from.
You can customize the length of time that you want messages to be available for, ranging from two seconds to a week!