Google Adds Handwriting Recognition to Android

[Marshall Honorof]

Google's latest app will parse your handwriting in any Android app, allowing you to write both words and emojis.

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[Vlad Rose]

"Google is hardly the first company to offer handwriting recognition keyboards for Android. Samsung's Galaxy phones have had a handwriting option for years and there are some third-party handwriting apps such as MyScript Stylus, available in the Play store."

K, I was wondering since this article was sounding like it was something new. I've had this feature in my Note 2.

 

[reactive]

I was using a Toshiba tablet / laptop hybrid over 10 years ago (at a guess). It used an early version of Microsoft's OneNote, and its handwriting recognition was pretty good. The fact that Google have decided to do the same in 2015 is hardly newsworthy!