Google has released an update for its Keyboard app for Android in Google Play. The update is a minor one, but brings support for six Indian languages as well as a new keyboard layout for Hindi called “Hindi (Compact)”. Hindi (Compact) offers most language characters including consonants and vowels in a single view and rest of them can be accessed by long-pressing select keys. On the other hand, in the normal Hindi language layout, the characters are available in two views.
The new Indian languages that made their way to Google Keyboard are Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. In addition, Google has including support for Tamil (Singapore) in the app.
Among other changes, Google has tweaked the settings interface in the app. Apart from the new languages support and the new settings UI, we won’t see any other changes in the application. We are waiting for an official change-log to get a confirmation on the same.
Gaurav Shukla is a journalist with over 12 years of experience covering the consumer technology space. He started his career with a self-published Android blog and has since worked with Microsoft's MSN.com, XDA Developers, How-to Geek, and NDTV Gadgets 360.
5 replies on “Google Keyboard gets Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil & Telugu support”
above picture all language type same hindi characters 😛
That is because language keyboard layout was changed after typing it in Hindi…
installed the update and able to see Kannada (disabled). how do i enable it
Un-select “Use System Language” option.
installed the app, got malayalam keyboard but all the characters are not available