stickers with custom phrases in Gboard, pay with Play Points and more

Every three months Google suddenly announces a set of updates that add important features to our Android devices, and for this month of June the news arrives for improve communication, navigation and payments on Google Play.

Google released news for its keyboard gboardfor accessibility applications sound amplifier there Look forand important new features in the points program Google Play Points. The novelties are as follows:

Stickers with custom phrases

Stickers with custom phrases are now official. After several months of testing, Google is rolling out this new feature worldwide, but for now only for the keyboard set to US English

. This feature allows us turn a short sentence into a sticker. To do this, just activate the US English keyboard, write a sentence, click on the emoji that will appear in the suggestion bar, then on the new stickers with the custom phrase that will appear in the suggestion bar . Gboard will offer us different designs.

More Emoji Kitchen Combinations

To celebrate the imminent arrival of summer and the month of Pride arrive over 1,600 new combinations create new stickers with Emoji Kitchen so that you have more possibilities to express an emotion with a sticker. For example, you can create a new sticker by combining the watermelon emoji with other elements, such as a slowdown. And for Pride, the rainbow will have to be combined with other emojis.

More accessibility features

The Sound Amplifier accessibility app is updated with better background noise reduction, faster and more accurate sound, and a revamped user interface for ease of use.

For people with vision issues, you’ll find important news and improvements in the new Lookout update. The application is updated with a new photo mode

so that they can easily analyze any image and listen to his description thanks to Google’s machine learning for image understanding. Google has also made improvements to text mode, document mode, food label mode, and browse mode to make Lookout more accurate.

Pay for in-app purchases with Play Points

Finally, in a few weeks, we will be able to pay for in-app purchases of apps and games with points earned through the Google Play Points rewards program, eliminating the process of converting Play Points to balance. One point will equal one penny.

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