Google announces a torrent of upcoming news for Android smartphones
By purchasing an Android device, you know that you have a product that will continue to improve year after year, thanks to the new functions that google browser Releases with great regularity. Today, the California company announced a slew of new features that will be arriving over the next few weeks on smartphones with the green robot.
It is already possible today to start using some of them, so let’s go without further delay to see what Big G has prepared for us.
The smartphone is controlled by the face
subtract from camera keys NS Activate the project, two new accessibility features inspired by people with motor and speech disabilities. The first is part of the Android Accessibility Suite and turns the front camera into a switch for navigating the smartphone without touching the screen or any button.
Project Activate is instead a new app that allows you to use facial expressions or eye movements to activate a series of predefined actions, with the ability to send messages and play phrases or sounds. The Lookout app has also been enriched with handwriting recognition capability to help people with visual impairments. The app can also recognize Euro and Rupee in currency mode, support for other currencies will arrive soon.
The TV is controlled using a smartphone
Starting today, it becomes easier to find something to look at for yourself Google TV, even in those very common cases where some pillows swallowed the remote control. It is actually possible to control Google TV from your smartphone, thanks to the functionality built into Android, all from your smartphone screen, including operating the device.
This will make it easier to configure streaming services, which require you to enter an account and password, and entry is often complicated via a remote control. This news is accompanied by an announcement regarding the availability of the Google TV app in fourteen countries, with it starting to roll out in the next few weeks.
The countries involved are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and fortunately Italy as well. In this way, it will be possible to control your device using Google TV / Android TV through the panel to be added to the quick settings (only on Android 11 and Android 12) or through the dedicated application. The user can choose between controls using the D-Pad for navigation and gesture controls.
Manage activities with the Google Assistant
Google’s voice assistant has been enriched with a new central hub for managing reminders, which can be accessed by saying “Hey Google, open Reminders.” You can view your saved reminders along with helpful tips to create recurring reminders with a single click.
You can continue to create new reminders for commands you’re already used to, and receive relevant notifications on your connected devices, whether you’re at home or on the go.
Photos and videos in a protected space
This is a feature that has so far been only available on Pixel smartphones but will reach all Android devices soon. Let’s talk about locked folder from Google Photos, which provides a password-protected space to securely store your photos and videos, so they are not visible to anyone while scrolling through the app, as well as other apps.
More freedom of expression with Gboard
The most popular keyboard for Android users, GboardReady to get richer thanks to the news coming to Emoji Kitchen. With over 1,500 new stickers, which will be released in the coming weeks, it will be even easier to create new combinations of your favorite emoji, for a richer and clearer communication.
Gboard news does not stop there, which will help users to communicate faster, thanks to a new set of functions. By copying texts that include a variety of information, such as an address, email, or phone number, Gboard will extract each entry individually, giving you a number of options to paste in, to use only the data you need at a given time.
Moreover, by opening a messaging app immediately after taking a screenshot, Gboard will instantly provide you with the ability to share it, without having to access the appropriate menu. And for smartphones running Android 11 and above, machine learning will speed up typing thanks to the Smart Compose feature, which will suggest whole sentences based on context.
More control over the stock
Thanks to a number of improvements in Settings Close post, the user will have more control over who can see their device and possibly send files. You can choose whether to remain visible to anyone, only to your contacts or no one, with the ability to quickly change these settings through the quick settings.
Heads Up reaches more smartphones
One of its latest innovations digital wellness And Attention, a function that tries to prevent you from using your smartphone while you are in traffic. The function displays a series of warnings that remind you of the danger of walking on the street while looking at the smartphone, not paying attention to what is happening in the surrounding environment.
You can find more details about all the upcoming news by visiting This section From the official Android website.
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