5 awesome features about Google's new Hangouts 4.0 update

Apart from the major organizational change and naming a new CEO Google has also been working on its Hangouts app.

The search giant has finally introduced Hangouts 4.0 for Android and the messaging app is now sleeker and simpler to use.

The new Hangouts 4.0 has now been updated with the company's own Material Design philosophy, which it first introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop. "Hangouts has a new look and feel: items respond to your touch in more intuitive ways and transitions between tasks are more fluid," said the company blog post on Monday.

Here are five things that make the new Hangouts app better:

"Whether you're sending a quick message or video chatting with family, you don't want hold-ups. We've been obsessively fixing bugs and speeding up message delivery to make Hangouts faster and more reliable," adds the post.