The new app will be available on various app stores, and users will need to download the app and choose their preferred language from the dialogue box that appears at the start of the app. Users can change the preferred language at a later date from setting menu.
If user wants to change the language of the keyboard they will need to tap "language and input" in settings menu and choose the keyboard language of their choice. This multi-lingual keyboard works only with Hike messenger and cannot be used for inputs to other apps.
Hike Growth
Year 2015 has been good for Hike's growth. The company announced that they crossed 1 billion messages a day milestone in November of 2015. This number is more than double compared to what they had last year.
Hike launched it's version 4 in August of this year and their growth has accelerated after that. In last 3 months alone the messenger has moved from around 700 million messages a day in September to around 1.1 billion messages in November 2015.