Google Handwriting Input App for Android Now Available for Download

[Thakur]

Google on Wednesday released a new input app named Google Handwriting Input for Androidsmartphones and tablets. Like a keyboard app, once enabled, the app allows for handwriting input across other apps.

As the name suggests, the app lets users input both words and emojis by hand-drawing the words or shapes. The app supports 82 languages in 20 distinct scripts and says it can be mainly useful for "languages that can be challenging to type on a standard keyboard."

The Google Handwriting Input app also works with printed and cursive writing input, even without a stylus. The app by default uses Google's light teal colour scheme, which users can also change to dark theme. Option to choose from local or cloud-based handwriting recognition is also included.

The app is sized at 11.83MB, works with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and later OS versions, and is already available for download from Google Play.

Talking about keyboard apps, last month Fleksyannounced that it will be fully free for Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge owners and will also include full keyboard functionality and premium themes, which together cost $10.

SwiftKey in February this year introduced emoji prediction for iOS devices, introduced key-click sounds alongside the support for 11 additional languages. Swype on the other hand, introducedAndroid 5.0 Lollipop-based themes (Light, Dark and Bumble Bee), detachable keyboard for Android tablet users, new languages and more. Also, included was the emoji support in eight languages. Some of the other features added were Korean initial consonant, performance improvements related to connected services, and few bug fixes.



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[Thakur]

New Google app to help you write freely

smartphone or tablet screen. It automatically interprets letters from 82 languages and transforms them into standard digital text.


Users can use their fingers as well to write.

Developed by the company’s research team, Handwriting Input can identify both cursive and print handwriting, and accepts emojis, reported CNET.

“Using handwriting as an input method can allow for natural and intuitive input method for text entry which complements typing and speech input
methods,” Google’s research team wrote in a blog post recently.


Google’s handwriting app is not entirely new though.

Windows Journal, an app built into Microsoft’s operating system, similarly allows users to input their handwriting.
The app then interprets each letter and provides a standard digital text version.


But Google Handwriting Input supports both on- device processing of handwriting and a cloud-based
version.

According to Google, when users decide to put their handwriting through its web-based servers via the cloud feature, it “will usually produce more accurate
results” than the offline version that doesn’t send handwriting recognition out to the web but rather uses the features built into the app to recognise letters.

Google Handwriting Input is available now as a free download in the Google Play marketplace.

The app
requires Android 4.0.3 and up in order to work.

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[nambbus]

Downloaded. but slow app. lagging.. :🙇🙇🙇🙇