Android Wear smartwatches don't accommodate on-screen keyboards, because it's easier to access argument application articulation acceptance than it is to blazon on a accessory with a 1.6 inch screen. But what do you do if you're in a blatant ambiance area your watch ability not admit your voice? Or how about a quiet amplitude like a library area it ability be adapted to allege out loud?
Microsoft Research has appear an aboriginal ancestor of an Android Wear app that lets you draw belletrist on the awning to access text.
It's alleged the Analog Keyboard for Android Wear, and it's accessible for download from Microsoft Research. Note that the antecedent adaptation of the app alone supports smartwatches with 320 x 320 pixel aboveboard displays and the Motorola Moto 360. The accession action is additionally a little complicated and requires the Android SDK and a USB or Bluetooth affiliation amid your PC and watch.
There are added companies alive on basic keyboards for Android Wear, including Fleksy and Minuum. But the Analog Keyboard from Microsoft doesn't attack to ataxia your awning with a abounding QWERTY keyboard featuring tiny keys that ability be adamantine to hit with a finger. Instead you access one letter at a time as if you were autograph on cardboard (or an old-school Palm Pilot).
Microsoft is apropos to the Analog Keyboard as a prototype… and for acceptable reason. For instance, it currently alone supports lower-case characters, not upper-case belletrist and doesn't run on watches with 280 x 280 pixel screens. Microsoft says the keyboard can additionally be a array hog, back all processing is done on your watch, not on your buzz or in the cloud.
But the app does abutment auto-correct for frequently acclimated words, acceptance you to accumulate autograph alike as you accomplish the casual typo… or whatever you alarm an afield fatigued letter.
via The Verge
Title : Microsoft releases Android Wear “keyboard†for autography on smartwatches
Description : Android Wear smartwatches don't accommodate on-screen keyboards, because it's easier to access argument application articulation...