WhatsApp for Android implements two-factor authentication

After quite updates Beta version of WhatsApp for Android uneventfully, now comes the new version 2.16.183 loaded with new features. To begin with, as the title of the article says, has implemented a new security feature, two-factor authentication, as you can see in the screenshots of @WABetaInfo, but as usual, it is not yet activated.

Another new feature we can find, is included since previous versions, as discussed multiple users, is the incorporation of the Fixedsys source, to use just put three single quotes before and after the word, eg ‘ ‘ ‘source Fixedsys’ ‘ ‘.

Internally we must say that we had never seen so many changes in a version of WhatsApp for Android, is that despite your installation file APK has decreased by 178 KB, have been modified 1319 files, if we consider that the application It has 3700 files, the number is staggering. In addition, five directories have been removed with 3 icons each, which have been added five new directories, so for example has been changed-ldrtl-hdpi-v17-drawable drawable directory ldrtl-hdpi-v4.

Finally remark that in order to add the new security feature two-factor authentication have been added 4 new files: activity_two_factor.xml, fragment_two_factor_auth.xml, fragment_two_factor_auth_code.xml, fragment_two_factor_auth_email.xml, settings_two_factor_auth.xml.

How to download the Beta version of WhatsApp for Android

We remind you that this Beta version to download from Google Play before you have to become beta testers. It’s really simple, besides, we can stop being beta tester also very easily and receive updates only stable application. Please remember that if you want to become a beta tester of the application from Google Play, you have all the information here.

Remind you that the beta versions of the application are not exempt from errors, its installation can cause unexpected errors, even when installing the application will see messages that warn us, but as a rule the beta version of WhatsApp for Android never gives problems and we will have the latest news before than the stable version of Google Play.