A few hours later Support still includes the update that brought the September security patches and some bug fixes to Pixels (Except Pixel 6aGoogle intervenes again to communicate that it will accept them late). News affecting the Android ecosystem In the broadest sense, from smartphones to tablets, Google TV and wearOS. A small note of color. Pixel customers will get a double ration of innovation: Android 13 related first, and now these. Not bad.
NEWS FOR ECOSYSTEM ANNOUNCED BY GOOGLE
- Nearby sharing, nearby sharing – From the next few weeks, it will be easy to share files with Android smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks, photos, videos or entire folders: choose the target device from those with the same Google account, and that’s it. Once the share is accepted on the target device, the “yes” remains in memory and future shares are automatically accepted even when the screen is off. The latter isn’t technically new: Google announced it a few hours ago, but since it’s new it thought it was worth repeating.
- Widget for each tablet – Google Drive and Google Keep have been rearranged: the first now offers three buttons that allow you to access documents, slides and sheets with a single touch, the second is larger and the fonts themselves are larger.
- News for Gboard and Google Meet:
- The keyboard gets a new emoji kitchen and a button (EmojiifyGoogle calls it) with a stylized magic wand that lets you Emojis Written up to that moment: the system analyzes the text, intelligently replaces words or phrases with emojis; There are different levels Emojiization: The more you press the magic wand, the more smileys appear in the text. This way you don’t have to interrupt writing to select the emoticon, everything is done at the end. However, this seems to be a long-term innovation: Gboard in English is already available for beta, and in the “coming weeks” it will also arrive in stable Gboard, but always in English.
- With Google Meet, the possibility to fix multiple participants and opportunities to share in real time increases: from videos on YouTube to games like Uno! Or be warned! You can interact with 100’s of contacts in real time. Already available on Android smartphones and tablets
- News for accessibility Learned in collaboration with the community of the deaf:
- Instant Transcription, a feature that’s been around since 2019, includes a real-time speech-to-text app designed for the hearing-impaired that can now “transcribe” even critical home sounds from a fire siren. The alarm goes through someone knocking on the door. Alerts for these “noticeable” sounds are assigned to smartphones, smartwatches, vibrations, or flashing LED flashlights on the phone.
Additionally, Google introduces the ability to add custom sounds to the alert library: “Just register it and your phone or watch will notify you the next time it rings” - On Google TV, audio descriptions can now also capture visual information. Google TV already has a collection of movies that offer the possibility of experimenting with innovation.
- Instant Transcription, a feature that’s been around since 2019, includes a real-time speech-to-text app designed for the hearing-impaired that can now “transcribe” even critical home sounds from a fire siren. The alarm goes through someone knocking on the door. Alerts for these “noticeable” sounds are assigned to smartphones, smartwatches, vibrations, or flashing LED flashlights on the phone.
- New tiles for WearOS: Come one for Google Keep that lets you take care of something on the fly and Bitmoji, which lets you always show your personal face in a different expression depending on the time of day, weather or physical condition. action
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