Google, a multinational company has renamed its Hindi keyboard app to Indic Keyboard. The company has also upgraded the app with the support of 10 more regional languages apart from adding other new features. With this latest update, the keyboard now gets support for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.
The newly upgradable keyboard supports different modes of input like transliteration mode, which offers output in the native language by spelling out the pronunciation using English letters and native mode will let you to type in the native script. Additionally, it is proving handwriting mode, which is currently available in Hindi only and lets you write directly on your phone screen. The UI for switching mode has been also updated.
Earlier in May, Swiftkey updated its Android app with new adaptive layouts for different languages. These layouts in the Android app feature a set of contextually aware keys over and above the row of contextually relevant word predictions, which is present for all the languages.
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At that time company was also added that, “The layout of these non-contextually-aware keys maintain the structure of the active language, mimicking how Hindi speakers would have been taught the language at school to make the experience more intuitive”.
Earlier this month, Google updated a range of its Android apps, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Keep, as well as image apps: Photos, and Snapseed.
