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Gboard for Android is getting a pretty nice update this week. There are improvements across most of the app — emoji and GIF suggestions while you type, better voice typing, even more background themes, and even Google Translate access. On a smaller note, emoji, web, and GIF search can be used in right-to-left languages. New features: Gboard also has emoji search to help you find emojis faster, plus GIF search, and multilingual typing to let you switch languages on the fly.Press and hold Enter to choose from hundreds of emoji in any app (Android 4.4+). While you’re pecking away at the keyboard, emoji and GIF suggestions will now show up in the keyboard suggestion area. GIFs will work in supported apps, such as Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Hangouts and Allo. One of the cool features of this upgrad...

Android is super customisable. There are so many icon packs, wallpapers, and launchers available to customize your home screen.It becomes very hard to find the right design for your home screen. But now you need not to worry as  Android announced on Twitter   the #myAndroid Taste Test, which is a quick test that asks you a bunch of different questions about your design tastes, and then suggests different home screens at the end. I took the test myself and it was fun all the way. It ask you series of questions about how you like your home screen to have like Vibrant or muted Light or dark Warm or cool Patterned or random Realistic or abstract Each  of the questions is accompanied by a fun picture of GIF, and there’s plenty of fun questions mixed in as well. What’s really cool, is that it pulls the data from various apps on the Play Store. So, this little quiz is great for developers, too. Some of the apps it suggested were Nova Launcher, Smart ...

Presentation Image only. Source:Google search Android operating system has received a major update every year since 2012, so we expect to see Android 8.0 this year. While 2016’s Android 7.0 Nougat added split-screen mode and direct reply to messages, we’re hearing that this year’s update will add more features that make the OS more efficient to use, and also a candy codename. Google has been developing new assistive features for its Android mobile operating system.The features might or might not make their debut in the next version of Android, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat. Google’s working on a feature called Copy Less that would let the operating system automatically copy data to your clipboard in order to save you the time of selecting text and hitting copy. It’s unclear whether the feature would be added to Google’s standard-issue Gboard virtual keyboard app or Android itself. Accordingly,for instance, if you and a friend ...

  Technology has come out in a long way in facilitating human a lot in day to day life.One of the most important advancement is the way technology making it possible to share files with each other from around the world using the many cloud storage services that we can find. Believe it or not, in 2017, file-sharing between individuals is not a particularly easy affair. Quite frankly, I had a better experience more than a decade ago sending things to friends and family using AOL Instant Messenger. Nowadays, everything is so fragmented, that it can be hard to share. A new open source project for file sharing called Upspin has recently surfaced online. Although announced by Google, Upspin is not an official Google product. The project even has an official mascot named Augie. Upspin is an attempt to make file sharing easy and secure. It proposes global namespace implementation using the email addresses of the users.The Google engineers who are behind t...